The investigators at Debunked ask whether a single submarine could truly trigger a nuclear winter. Mexico President Claudia ...

Anna Wintour was known as 'Nuclear Winter' during her time at British Vogue, according to the publisher of Gloss Magazine.

It would be the most severe and abrupt disruption to global ecological systems. Yet in many mainstream climate narratives, it ...

The investigators at Debunked paint a chilling picture of what a real nuclear winter would look like.

Following a nuclear war, during a nuclear winter, the growing season would be 90% reduced across many parts of the midlatitudes. JJ Gouin / iStock via Getty Images 5.

Nuclear winter is a term for what climate and the environment would be like following a nuclear attack or resulting nuclear war. Smoke from the fires started by nuclear weapons would rise into the ...

But it would take four more decades for scientists to begin to learn and discuss the most lethal and frightening outcome of even a small-scale nuclear war: so-called "nuclear winter".

The original nuclear winter research had enormous political influence, and was enormously controversial, as the historian Jill Lepore described in a 2017 piece in the New Yorker.

Following a nuclear war, during a nuclear winter, the growing season would be 90% reduced across many parts of the midlatitudes. JJ Gouin / iStock via Getty Images 5.

Deadlier weapons, more nations, autocrats in charge, disinformation and collapsing arms control — the risk of nuclear ...

An outbreak of nuclear war, with hundreds or thousands of atomic explosions, could send the planet into an apocalyptic state called nuclear winter, in which billions of people would starve to death.

Not only would it disrupt the planet's global climate, but in a nuclear winter, the temperature could drop up to 48 degrees Fahrenheit. "In the historical and paleo records, large volcanic ...