The investigators at Debunked ask whether a single submarine could truly trigger a nuclear winter. Mexico's Sheinbaum blasts ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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.

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.

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

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 ...

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. ...