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Offline Kie99

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That page doesn't say anything about EMP. EMP is generated by the atmosphere around the blast, not the blast itself. In space, I don't think you'll get any EMP.
Supercompressed air in the warhead which expands a fraction of a second before the explosives?
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Offline General Battuta

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Maybe? If you purpose-built it.

 

Offline Mongoose

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But even then, the surface area of the released-air shockwave would swiftly dissipate via the inverse-square law as it moved away from the point of detonation.  At least how I see it, it wouldn't have nearly the range or destructive force as an atmospheric detonation, where the shock wave propagates through a uniform medium.

  

Offline Scotty

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EMP introduces an electrical current to the ships hull, overloading subsystems and scrambling those not disabled or damaged.   ;7

 

Offline General Battuta

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EMP introduces an electrical current to the ships hull, overloading subsystems and scrambling those not disabled or damaged.   ;7

If you're referring to specialist EMP weapons, those are possible in space, but you won't get an EMP off a regular nuke like a Harbinger or an antimatter weapon like a Helios (as you would in the atmosphere.)

 

Offline DIO

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As for radiation, space is filled with radiation anyway so any space ship would have defences against it.