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Definition of nuclear winter in English: nuclear winternoun A period of abnormal cold and darkness predicted to follow a nuclear war, caused by a layer of smoke and dust in the atmosphere blocking the sun's rays. 核冬天（指核战争后由于大气中的烟尘挡住阳光而预料将会出现的异常寒冷和黑暗的时期） Example sentencesExamples - The story arc follows the descent of a rich Iranian tourist to a post-apocalyptic America coming out of a nuclear winter.
- As the soot from burning cities and vegetation would result in a nuclear winter following atomic Armageddon, so the billions of tonnes of sulphuric acid in the stratosphere following Toba would mean perpetual darkness and cold for years.
- As a result, the company has flourished during what Chesonis refers to as the nuclear winter of telecommunications.
- If Einstein's words are true, then sometime in the near or distant future we may very well perish from the hellfire of an atomic holocaust, and our descendants will haunt a barren world entombed in a nuclear winter of discontent.
- A three-year halt on engine development is, in the eyes of most in this sport, more akin to a nuclear winter than a temporary freeze.
- By the time you read this, it could be a nuclear winter or a globally warmed perpetual summer.
- Then, as if some invisible nuclear winter descended on southern Louisiana, the nuns died out and disappeared from the face of the Earth.
- Such developments confirm that the world has moved on; we are no longer fearful of the nuclear winter.
- When I first began to worry about climate change, global cooling and nuclear winter seemed the main risks.
- It may not have been exactly amicable, but nor was it exactly the nuclear winter that now exists between the party leadership and FitzGerald.
- Ecological and evolutionary aspects that have been studied range from geographical distribution of plants to consequences of a nuclear winter.
- Worries about a silent spring or a nuclear winter gave way to wonderment at the Internet and Dolly, the cloned sheep.
- In the 1980s, scientists assessed the possible effects of nuclear warfare (many nuclear bombs exploding in different parts of the world) and proposed the theory that a nuclear winter could occur.
- Baseball's equivalent of nuclear winter was first described to me two years ago by a man in step with the hawks among baseball owners.
- Am I subconsciously getting ready for a nuclear winter?
- On the other end of the eschatological scale we find visions of societal breakdown, chaos, nuclear winter and heat death - a spectacle of humanity driven by its own frailties and technological hubris to its ultimate destruction.
- Policymakers planned ‘day after’ scenarios based on thoughts of nuclear winter, not nation-building or pacifying disgruntled villagers.
- Deep down beneath the granite mountains of Colorado, where you might expect to find a secret US Defense Department stockpile of missiles awaiting the end of the thaw from some awful nuclear winter, lies another kind of reserve.
- According to the legends, this decade was the artistic and cultural equivalent of nuclear winter: dark, cold and lifeless.
- If a meteor impact causes a nuclear winter, then the ability to lie dormant would have improved your chances.
Definition of nuclear winter in US English: nuclear winternounˈn(j)uklɪ(ə)r A period of abnormal cold and darkness predicted to follow a nuclear war, caused by a layer of smoke and dust in the atmosphere blocking the sun's rays. 核冬天（指核战争后由于大气中的烟尘挡住阳光而预料将会出现的异常寒冷和黑暗的时期） Example sentencesExamples - Worries about a silent spring or a nuclear winter gave way to wonderment at the Internet and Dolly, the cloned sheep.
- On the other end of the eschatological scale we find visions of societal breakdown, chaos, nuclear winter and heat death - a spectacle of humanity driven by its own frailties and technological hubris to its ultimate destruction.
- Deep down beneath the granite mountains of Colorado, where you might expect to find a secret US Defense Department stockpile of missiles awaiting the end of the thaw from some awful nuclear winter, lies another kind of reserve.
- Am I subconsciously getting ready for a nuclear winter?
- A three-year halt on engine development is, in the eyes of most in this sport, more akin to a nuclear winter than a temporary freeze.
- By the time you read this, it could be a nuclear winter or a globally warmed perpetual summer.
- Such developments confirm that the world has moved on; we are no longer fearful of the nuclear winter.
- As a result, the company has flourished during what Chesonis refers to as the nuclear winter of telecommunications.
- If a meteor impact causes a nuclear winter, then the ability to lie dormant would have improved your chances.
- Baseball's equivalent of nuclear winter was first described to me two years ago by a man in step with the hawks among baseball owners.
- According to the legends, this decade was the artistic and cultural equivalent of nuclear winter: dark, cold and lifeless.
- As the soot from burning cities and vegetation would result in a nuclear winter following atomic Armageddon, so the billions of tonnes of sulphuric acid in the stratosphere following Toba would mean perpetual darkness and cold for years.
- When I first began to worry about climate change, global cooling and nuclear winter seemed the main risks.
- Then, as if some invisible nuclear winter descended on southern Louisiana, the nuns died out and disappeared from the face of the Earth.
- In the 1980s, scientists assessed the possible effects of nuclear warfare (many nuclear bombs exploding in different parts of the world) and proposed the theory that a nuclear winter could occur.
- It may not have been exactly amicable, but nor was it exactly the nuclear winter that now exists between the party leadership and FitzGerald.
- Policymakers planned ‘day after’ scenarios based on thoughts of nuclear winter, not nation-building or pacifying disgruntled villagers.
- Ecological and evolutionary aspects that have been studied range from geographical distribution of plants to consequences of a nuclear winter.
- The story arc follows the descent of a rich Iranian tourist to a post-apocalyptic America coming out of a nuclear winter.
- If Einstein's words are true, then sometime in the near or distant future we may very well perish from the hellfire of an atomic holocaust, and our descendants will haunt a barren world entombed in a nuclear winter of discontent.
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