Not really. This talks about a devastation of: > A limited, regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan in which each side detonates 50 15 kt weapons coul

Not really. This talks about a devastation of: > A limited, regional nuclear war between India and Pakistan in which each side detonates 50 15 kt weapons could produce about 5 Tg of black carbon (BC). [1] That's 5 million metric tons. The footnote on the Wikipedia article [2] says the oil fires produced: > 16,000 metric tons of actual soot is produced from 220,000 metric tons of oil burned every day. They started doing this in January and they didn't finish putting out the fires until November, or almost 300 days. But let's use 200 days as a reasonable approximation, given that some of the fires were out earlier than that. Multiplying 16,000 by 200 gives 3.2 million metric tons of soot, so the nuclear war soot is about 1.5 times worse than the oil fire soot. Also, consider that humanity has actually performed some 520 atmospheric nuclear explosions (including 8 underwater) with a total yield of 545 Megaton [3]. And yet this 0.75 Megaton conflict is going to plunge the world into winter? I'm not buying it. [1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013EF000205/full http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2013EF000205/full [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwaiti_oil_fires#cite_note-37 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwaiti_oil_fires#cite_note-37 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_weapons_tests