If you try going far from the nuke it will disappear, but what really messes the effect up is that it turns invisible if you come closer to the explosion. If anyone knows a fix please let me know. And yes this is from 1.7.10.

its caused by rendering distance

Yeah that's just render distance, either stay closer to the blast or use OptiFine to extend the render distance.

or use chunk loading block covered with blast resistant things