yah thats just terrible its a death trap. They might as well said for them just to run into a mine field.
what's worse is that they actually had gotten it to work out! They had done a hell of a lot of work they cleared and rebuilt the bridges and trails and had gotten everything squared away through hard work, and had gotten all the creatures to back off, they had worked a hell of a lot harder than any of the NCR bigwigs ever had to, in order make the place livable, and they were all slaughtered by creatures that the inspection team would have known about if they had done their job worth a damn.
Imagine getting plopped into a minefield, but through sweat and determination, you are able to disable enough of the mines to set up a camp and are actually almost happy with your situation, but you were never told that the minefield was on a nuclear test site.