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airbursts

n. (plural of airburst English)

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The airbursts, the preemptive strikes, the massive retaliations, the uncontrollable escalations: it is already happening inside our heads.

From my point of view, the consequences of global nuclear war became much more dangerous with the invention of the hydrogen bomb, because airbursts of thermonuclear weapons are much more capable of burning cities, generating vast amounts of smoke, cooling and darkening the Earth, and inducing global-scale nuclear winter.