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First, what do you mean by finish?

The nuclear reaction that produces the explosion completes in a few microseconds (less than 20 microseconds in my computer simulations). The fireball took a few seconds to expand to maximum size. The mushroom cloud took from 2 to 5 minutes to rise to its maximum altitude. Fallout took hours to months to descend depending on altitude, wind, precipitation, etc. (fallout from the top of the mushroom cloud often was caught in the jet stream and carried around the earth hundreds of times, this sometimes stayed up for years)

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