Noun

1. Nuclear winter.
   • 1957, Bruce Hutchison, Canada: Tomorrow's Giant http://books.google.com/books?id=afBtOIR2JoQC, page 85:

   Let it explode, it is the only safe explosion left, now that man has invented the ingredients of eternal atomic winter.

   • 1990, US Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Global Spread of Chemical and Biological Weapons, Hearings http://books.google.com/books?id=15w1AAAAIAAJ, page 555:

   • December 1956. elements of the IV Corps (10th [Guards] Infantry Division) and II Corps (2nd and 27th Infantry Divisions) participated in an atomic winter maneuver.

   • 2002, Jean-Pierre Boulé, HIV Stories: The Archaeology of AIDS Writing in France, 1985-1988 http://books.google.com/books?id=xc5BfvKIMuIC, ISBN 0853235783, page 129:

   ...the military phantasy is fine-tuned into a nuclear war followed by an atomic winter...