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Recent Examples on the Web It would also be followed by a nuclear winter scenario, in which particles of dust and ash sent skyward would enter the upper atmosphere, blocking sunlight and lowering temperatures globally for several years. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022 Time for your weekly nuclear winter forecast: The likelihood of fallout has lessened somewhat, with chances of a full-scale nuclear war looking slim. — Jason Fields, The Week, 14 Apr. 2022 The show took place on a circular runway, emulating a post-apocalyptic, nuclear winter with the models strutting against artificial elements of snow, wind, and lightning, all while donning neo-futuristic looks from the collection. — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 6 Mar. 2022 The researchers are certain that the fish died within an hour of the asteroid strike, and not as a result of the massive wildfires or the nuclear winter that came in the days and months that followed. — Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 Feb. 2022 Grose herself remembers lying awake at night as a child worrying about nuclear winter. — Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 25 Jan. 2022 With baseball entering its second month of a nuclear winter launched by a Dec. 2 lockout by owners, all transactions involving players have been frozen. — Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022 The impact would have thrown trillions of tons of dust into the atmosphere, blocking the sunlight and causing a worldwide nuclear winter, leading to the collapse of entire ecosystems. — David Bressan, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021 Then, in 1995, the volcano erupted, leaving the island looking like a nuclear winter. — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 20 Aug. 2021 See More

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“Nuclear winter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuclear%20winter. Accessed 16 May. 2022.

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