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

Can nuclear escalation be controlled so that it stops well short of mass destruction and the nuclear winter?

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2024

It suddenly becomes far more salient, I think, looking back at the nuclear winter debate and the lessons that it offers us for today.

From Salon • Sep. 29, 2023

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

From Scientific American • Sep. 26, 2023

The voice emanating from the aluminum speaker grid was as serious as a nuclear winter.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer