nuclear winter

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In the 1970s, we were warned about a new ice age and in the 1980s of a nuclear winter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025

What lessons can be drawn about Britain's civil defence programme and its ability to provide either for the aftermath of a mass nuclear attack or the prospect of nuclear winter?

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2024

Fundamentally, nuclear winter was about a global cooling episode, and it was based on climate model simulations.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2023

In the height of the cold war, we were focused on nuclear winter.

From Scientific American • Sep. 26, 2023

Famine, war, nuclear winter, black holes, or coronal mass ejections.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson