The U.S. hasn't observed preparations for war, and the North's usual winter mobilization of troops and militias is coming to an end.

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And the nuclear-winter hypothesis (that the smoke from fires caused by a global nuclear war would blot out the sun's rays and thus cool the earth catastrophically) owes its origin, at least in part, to observations of a planet-wide dust storm on Mars.

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Some 22 months into the war -- and despite the world's sympathy -- they face a winter of freezing temperatures and uncertain food.

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Earlier this year, a weak economy, war worries and bad weather hit the traditional buying season, which runs from late winter through to early summer.

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It's a simple story: war has wrought a nuclear winter that threatens to wipe out all life on Earth, and the spaceship is sent in search of a "cosmo cleaner" to save humanity.

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