I think you over-estimate the power of nuclear weapons. It would take something with the power of an asteroid larger than 1km in order to cause any sort of geological damage to the earth. Nuclear weapons don't have nearly that much power. It might leave a small local crater, but there's no way you'd see much of an increase in volcanic activity or earthquakes. The main harm would be in the dust and debris it would kick up into the atmosphere, not to mention the radiation. The geological damage resulting from a nuclear war would be minimal. The only reason we get volcanoes and earthquakes is because they're found along fault lines near where two or more tectonic plates rub together. There are virtually no geological events anywhere else. And a nuclear bomb certainly doesn't have enough power to cause a crack to appear in the earth's crust.



They're also much less powerful than what we have in reality. Fallout's bombs are the same as the Fatman type that was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those don't have nearly the yield of the ones we have today. Other than the usual blast damage, dropping a bunch in one area wouldn't cause that much damage to the geology of the area.



No, because we'd probably go through another Ice Age before any sort of Global Warming kicked in.

And then the ozone would be screwed up and when the smog clears enough to end the nuclear winter...well welcome to 90 degree heat.

Nukes aren't so bad...communism is bad...

They're both pretty bad, I think. They both lead to deaths in very large quantities.

With ice ages lasting 40-100,000 years, there'll probably be plenty of time for the ozone layer to fix itself. Especially since we won't be around to keep screwing it up.

And green.

Preserv-it-all

A miracle of Science!

Here is another question. Where are all these raiders with their spiked mohawks getting the hair spray to make their hair stay up? Or are they just licking a fission battery every few hours to make it stand on end?

And who is their hairdresser? I have never seen a bunch of stone cold killers more meticulous about doing their hair. Well, not since the Spartans at least.

Haha I was listening to Galaxy News radio and Three Dog came on and said "HHHEEEEYYYY everyone!!! ANyone HUNGRY for some 200 years old salisbury steak????"

Well I also know for a fact you can buy a month's supply of MRE's in a big crate for 100 dollars a pop at my local army surplus stores

Preservatives lol. Maybe they made them in those days so they could last for years under the threat of nuclear war. you need to store them in bunkers and stuff so maybe thats why

You don't need hairspray if you never take a bath or shower, natural oil should be good enough.

The food obviously tastes 200 year old so nobody sane would eat it, I always sell it myself. 200 year old whiskey on the other hand

For food my favourite is squirrel on a stick, fresh, locally produced and without preservatives, yes food from animals you hunt yourself is even fresher, however everything including the canned food contains radiation, the cannibal perk give you access to a food source who are without radiation, also fresh if you only eat your own kills.

Are you sure about that? Have you actually ever seen a squirrel in the game?

Let's not forget this was based on the 50s views of the future, and science. So to them it was probably believable that either radiation could preserve food, that we'd have technology to MAKE them that well preserved, or both. They thought we'd be in flying cars by now, or blown to nonexistence, after all.

That sort of factor gives whoever produces Fallout(Whether it's Black Isles, Bethesda, or Obsidian) a lot of leeway to make some crazy crap up that we know wouldn't be possible by today's science. Like, as others have said, ghouls, supermutants, etc. etc. Sure, there's mutations from radiation-but it doesn't make you Superman(literally).

Most people don't really dwell on it too much, it kinda messes up the experience.

Just chalk it up as: "people of the '50s believes that radiation could preserve food.".

answer this then, why do some of the graves in arlington cemetary have flowers?

The same reason there's trees in Oasis. Life hasn't been completely stamped out by the war, there's still remnants here and there. Given time it will all grow back.

But radiation does preserve food, to a degree. Grain irradiation is used all over the world to make it last longer by killing bugs and bacteria.
If you're eating cereal it's probably from irradiated grain. SCIENCE!


I always thought those were fake flowers.

Me too, pretty sure they're fake. I was kinda blown away the first time I came across them, I'd gotten so used to drab I actually fired off a shot at it before I realized it was just a flower.

HAHAHAHAHA who knows!!!!!

Then you say it, no. However I doubt they was canned 200 years ago.
it's no small animals at all except the cockroaches, they probably don't include them.

The only purpose of the cockroachs it to confuse your radar. So fun to get a lots of cockroachs making red dots on the radar so you ignore them and bump into an overlord.
Or the other way around you see a supermutant and have lots of warnings on the radar and think you will run into 10 of them and it's one supermutant and 9 cockroachs

New Vegas's hardcoe mode addresses this somewhat.



I would assume Vault 101 would still have unmutated cattle. (If any livestock at all.)

LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS OF PRESERVATIVES.


A lot like today's food.

Mabey the radiation did something to the food.
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