It's not even a fireball. The nuclear fireball is just the air surrounding the bomb being rapidly superheated by the intense radiation emitted from the bomb itself, which in turn creates the shockwave.
In open space, a nuclear weapon is more like the brightest flashbulb imagineable, an intense burst of gamma and x-rays which fall off at the cube-root of distance from the weapon. It's not really an explosion - more an intense energy pulse.
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In open space, a nuclear weapon is more like the brightest flashbulb imagineable, an intense burst of gamma and x-rays which fall off at the cube-root of distance from the weapon. It's not really an explosion - more an intense energy pulse.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?