Complete Definition of "atomic winter"

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en-noun|sg=atomic winter

  1. nuclear winter|Nuclear winter.

#*1957, Bruce Hutchison, Canada: Tomorrow's Giant 1, page 85:
#:Let it explode, it is the only safe explosion left, now that man has invented the ingredients of eternal atomic winter.
#*1990, US Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Global Spread of Chemical and Biological Weapons, Hearings 2, page 555:
#:� December 1956. elements of the IV Corps (10th [Guards] Infantry Division) and 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 3, ISBN 0853235783, page 129:
#:...the military phantasy is fine-tuned into a nuclear war followed by an atomic winter...

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