atomic winter
English
Noun
atomic winter (plural atomic winters)
- (uncommon) Nuclear winter.
- 1990, US Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Global Spread of Chemical and Biological Weapons, Hearings,], page 555:
- • December 1956. elements of the IV Corps (10th [Guards] Infantry Division) and II Corps (2nd and 27th Infantry Divisions) participated in an atomic winter maneuver.
- 2002, Jean-Pierre Boulé, HIV Stories: The Archaeology of AIDS Writing in France, 1985-1988 , →ISBN, page 129:
- ...the military phantasy is fine-tuned into a nuclear war followed by an atomic winter...
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