nuclear winter
nuclear winter
nounDefinition of NUCLEAR WINTER
: the chilling of climate that is hypothesized to be a consequence of nuclear war and to result from the prolonged blockage of sunlight by high-altitude dust clouds produced by nuclear explosions
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1983
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