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Nuclear Winter

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

a hypothetical lowering of global temperature postulated as the aftermath of a full nuclear war The mechanism of such an effect depends primarily on the injection into the atmosphere of small solid particles as soot from burning forests which reflect sunlight and cause a reduction in solar energy retained by the earth

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