单词 | nuclear winter |
释义 | > as lemmasnuclear winter nuclear winter n. a period of extreme cold and darkness conjectured to follow a nuclear war, caused by a layer of smoke and dust in the atmosphere blocking the sun's rays. ΚΠ 1983 C. Sagan in Washington Post Parade 30 Oct. 7/3 This scenario, we found, would ignite thousands of fires, and the smoke from these fires alone would be enough to generate an epoch of cold and dark almost as severe as in the 5000-megaton case. The threshold for what Richard Turco has called The Nuclear Winter is very low. 1983 R. P. Turco et al. in Science 23 Dec. 1283 (heading) Nuclear winter: global consequences of multiple nuclear explosions. 1991 Christian Sci. Monitor 23 Jan. 8 Scientists warned that burning oil wells could have a nuclear-winter effect, putting so much smoke and dust in the atmosphere that the sun would be obscured. < as lemmas |
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