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Nuclear winter is a severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect that is hypothesized [1] [2] to occur after widespread firestorms following a large-scale nuclear war. [3] 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.
Daniel Behrens (born March 11, 1983), better known by his stage name Danimal Cannon, is an American video game composer [1] and chiptune music performer. [2] He is most known for combining guitar playing with Game Boy music.
A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race, Carl Sagan and Richard P. Turco, 1990 Random House, New York ISBN 0-394-58307-8. "Nuclear Winter in the Post-Cold War Era", Carl Sagan and Richard P. Turco, Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 30, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 369–373
It makes dramatic long-lasting climate predictions of the effect a nuclear winter would have on the Earth, an event that is suggested by the authors to follow both a city countervalue strike during a nuclear war, and especially following strikes on oil refineries and fuel depots.
Nuclear winter is a hypothetical climatic effect of nuclear war. It may also refer to: Nuclear Winter, an album by The Lonely Forest; Nuclear Winter Volume 1 (2009) or Nuclear Winter Volume 2: Death Panel (2011), mixtape albums by Sole; Nuclear Wintour, nickname for magazine editor Anna Wintour; Nuclear Winter, a mode of the video game Fallout 76
Mushroom cloud from the 1954 explosion of Castle Bravo, the largest nuclear weapon detonated by the U.S.. A nuclear holocaust, also known as a nuclear apocalypse, nuclear annihilation, nuclear armageddon, or atomic holocaust, is a theoretical scenario where the mass detonation of nuclear weapons causes widespread destruction and radioactive fallout, with global consequences.
While atomic power was promoted for a time as the epitome of progress and modernity, [2] entering into the nuclear power era also entailed frightful implications of nuclear warfare, the Cold War, mutual assured destruction, nuclear proliferation, the risk of nuclear disaster (potentially as extreme as anthropogenic global nuclear winter), as ...
A geological event such as massive flood basalt, volcanism, or the eruption of a supervolcano [178] could lead to a so-called volcanic winter, similar to a nuclear winter. Human extinction is a possibility. [179] One such event, the Toba eruption, [180] occurred in Indonesia about 71,500 years ago.