Fallout's Silent Apocalypse

We love exploring the cratered and destroyed wasteland of Fallout, which owes its existence to the nuclear exchange on October 23, 2077. But what if that war never happened? Could the world of Fallout have avoided its destruction, or was it always fated to end?

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[cassievania]

Atom above I was scrounging for lead in 76 the other day so I tagged it for search and was soon horrified how every baby toy started showing up. Fallout's dark satire remains untouchable.

[OrsonFellstone]

I'm starting to think the lead belly perk is literal.

[thefuturist]

Two things to add

1. the existence of radaway and Radx probably contributed to this feeling of invinciblity
2. For me the Nuka Cola Bottles were contaminated as a result of the war itself

[Kainlarsen]

While, in the real world, nuclear energy is incredibly clean and safe, with modern containment and disposal managed by strict regulations, the pre-war world of Fallout must have been the worst case of corporate greed, laziness and corner-cutting.

[Warrior-Of-Virtue]

The existence of medicines such as RadAway suggests that the pre-war world was aware of this problem and were taking steps to address it. Hell, the existence of people in the Fallout Universe, particularly among The Children of Atom, who are seemingly impervious to radiation may be the result of bioengineering experiments conducted on their ancestors prior to the apocalypse.

[nBasedAce]

Just to clarify. We don't dispose of liquid radioactive waste, we put it through vitrification which turns it into a solid black substance that is then put in barrels.

[coyote]

My headcanon is the point of divergence of the Fallout world was shortly after World War II, an American doctor, working in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, invented RadAway. With less fear of radiation poison, there was a much greater focus on nuclear applications and carelessness of nuclear waste.

[tim_the_traveler]

If the Fallout world has a Great Pacific Garbage Patch, that patch would become a whole god damn continent.

[MattnessLP]

Sugarbombs deserve their own in-depth analysis to be honest. They are component of so many dangerous and outright deadly crafting recipes across multiple games (mainly New Vegas and 76 coming to my mind, as they are the most recent I have played), there's got to be some insane chemicals in there that should normally be kept miles away from any kid's cereal bowl.

[B-zkbt]

Blu Flu, Eldritch Horrors, Radiation and The Great War all sat at a conference on the 23rd and decided how 2077 should end.

[TDenterpriser]

I think the thing with sugar bombs is a reference to the fact that sugar can literally be used as an explosive

[Alex_FRD]

Considering that the Pre-War world in Fallout is modeled after a cartoonish rendition of the 1950s, it's easy to see why everything is so dangerous.

[claytonbarham]

The heavy water in Cram is doubly interesting, seeing as heavy water is normally at least somewhat expensive to obtain (you have to filter it out of larger volumes of normal water), and it wouldn't seem to make much sense to spend that extra money to obtain heavy water for a food product. However, it does have one major application that I'm aware of, which is as the working fluid in a fission reactor, so that heavy water in cram could be some kind of waste water from nuclear reactors...

[mattfox]

Micro plastics. The parallel is micro plastics 😂

[daehr]

5:50 can confirm - my father grew up in the early 1960s and said it was normal to throw garbage out your car window on the highway as you drove. Oftentimes this would be fast food bags, junk in your car, whatever. Highway ravines were full of garbage, piled above the ravine by a foot or two. Trash everywhere - out of sight, out of mind. Or at least, out of car, not my problem. This wasn't in California, New York, Texas, no, this was in rural SW Iowa. I can't even imagine what it was like in more populated areas.

[Wolf]

I bet you that lawn darts are still a thing in the fallout universe. Because if there's one thing that this video taught me, it's that in this universe, letting your kids throw weighted spikes around the lawn is probably a perfectly safe thing to do.

[nekotyrant]

Sounds like the Legion caused a criticality event in Lamplight. Enough radioactive material together, especially in a shielded container, can react with itself and unleashe a MASSIVE amount of energy. In such a large amount in Lamplight, they basically Demon Cored the town.

Edit: This would also explain the "wave of energy."

[kaciekk]

FINALLY someone is covering this! I see many people say the amount of radiation 200 years in the future is unrealistic, but they dont take into account that nuclear energy was in EVERYTHING

[VictorJulioHurtado]

Perhaps they didn't care much about slow radiation poisoning due to Radawayand Rad-X. It's possible they took these just like they would take vitamins

[mothman]

emmet mountain is the funniest to me because, yes, there was coverups, but from an environmental perspective, they have one of the cleanest waste disposal sites in the fallout series; only real hazard being the groundwater leaking in. what makes the site funny to me is that, the scrappers that inhabit the site are trained on using hazmat suits, but some still go into the waste site without helmets. (not even the ghoul scavengers, random humans)