Would it make global warming worse or better? (I understand that global warming exists, just not so much how it works. I keep thinking it has to do with greenhouse gases, but then people tell me it's ozone.)
Mostly, the climate would get a little cooler for a year, and there would be an increased cancer hazard from UV rays. This is a small to medium-sized nuclear war we're talking about; the environmental damage would be short-term and fairly minor.
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Soot might cool things off temporarily, by blocking sunlight. "nuclear winter", Pinatubo, Krakatoa, and all that.
Huh, Firefox's spellchecker knows about Pinatubo and Krakatoa, but not about "spellchecker".
A bigger war would, of course, be much worse.