Nuclear Winter

Meaning, Term, and Glossary Definition - What is Nuclear Winter?

Prediction by some scientists that smoke and debris rising from massive fires of a nuclear war could block sunlight for weeks or months, cooling the earth's surface and producing climate changes that could, for example, negatively affect world agricultural and weather patterns.

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