Definitions for nuclear winter
nu·cle·ar win·ter

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1. nuclear winternoun

   a long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full-scale nuclear war; a layer of dust and smoke in the atmosphere would cover the earth and block the rays of the sun; most living organisms would perish

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1. nuclear winternoun

   A predicted drop in global temperature following a nuclear war due to dust in the upper atmosphere reducing sunlight reaching the ground.

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1. Nuclear winter

   Nuclear winter is a severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect that is hypothesized to occur after widespread firestorms following a large-scale nuclear war. The hypothesis is based on the fact that such fires can inject soot into the stratosphere, where it can block some direct sunlight from reaching the surface of the Earth. It is speculated that the resulting cooling would lead to widespread crop failure and famine. When developing computer models of nuclear-winter scenarios, researchers use the conventional bombing of Hamburg, and the Hiroshima firestorm in World War II as example cases where soot might have been injected into the stratosphere, alongside modern observations of natural, large-area wildfire-firestorms.

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1. nuclear winter

   Nuclear winter is a theoretical environmental condition that scientists predict could occur after a large-scale nuclear war. It is described as a severe and prolonged temperature drop on Earth due to the damage caused to the atmosphere by the smoke and soot rising from the firestorms following nuclear explosions. This condition could destroy most of Earth's vegetation, lead to mass extinction, and make the planet uninhabitable.

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1. Nuclear winter

   Nuclear winter is a hypothetical climatic effect of countervalue nuclear war. Models suggest that detonating nuclear weapons could have a profound and severe effect on the climate causing cold weather and reduced sunlight for a period of months or even years if the nuclear weapon strikes are on cities, comparable to Hiroshima, where it is modelled that large amounts of smoke and soot would be ejected into the Earth's stratosphere. Similar climatic effects can be caused by comets or an asteroid impact, also sometimes termed an impact winter, or by a supervolcano eruption, known as a volcanic winter.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of nuclear winter in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

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   The numerical value of nuclear winter in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of nuclear winter in a Sentence

1. John Thune:

   The Democrats are going to rue the day. If they go forward with this, they are going to rue the day because the nuclear winter that will ensue in the Senate if they move forward with this is, it's just going to be, it will completely paralyze the Senate.

2. Mitch McConnell:

   Our colleagues who are itching for a procedural nuclear winter have not even begun to contemplate how it would look, our colleagues who are itching to drain every drop of collegiality from this body have not even begun to consider how that would work.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=nuclear winter
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nuclear_Winter
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Winter
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=nuclear winter