Security experts have shared the two places on Earth that might be safe in the event of a nuclear war. Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Jacobsen is thought to be one of the most qualified nuclear experts ...

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.

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The investigators at Debunked paint a chilling picture of what a real nuclear winter would look like. Kate Middleton’s Gesture at Surprise Engagement Is Right Out of Princess Diana’s Playbook ...

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".

Nuclear winter, he said, “hasn’t been viewed as a climate issue at all. It is, of course, the ultimate climate-changer, should nuclear war break out. ...

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 ...

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.

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