nuclear winter

Noun

Meaning

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

brass monkey China syndrome nuclear disaster russian morning nuclear destruction nuclear catastrophe nuclear fallout atomic winter nuclear aftermath post-nuclear winter radiation winter nuclear ice atomic aftermath post-apocalyptic winter atomic frost

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Antonyms

warm boiling hot dog days of summer

Hypernyms

catastrophe cataclysm

Examples

On the 8th Day – Nuclear winter documentary (1984) Media * The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War : A book co-authored by Carl Sagan in 1984 which followed his co-authoring of the TTAPS study in 1983. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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