Pretty sure the bombs destroyed the world.

obviously not the whole world, seeing as the us and commies are fighting my guess is Austrailian is the same (name the last war they where in) I mean WHO would bomb austrailia?

Basic rule of thumb: if it wasnt nuked, the fall of social order destroyed pretty much everything we know.

obviously not the whole world, seeing as the us and commies are fighting my guess is Austrailian is the same (name the last war they where in) I mean WHO would bomb austrailia?

2003 invasion of Iraq
2001 War in Afghanistan
Gulf War
Indonesia?Malaysia confrontation
Korean War
Mahdist War
Malayan Emergency
Second Boer War
Vietnam War
World War I
World War II

Its important to remember they were not that important in most of those wars unless helping the commonwealth as they are obliged to do. While, in other wars like in Iraq, they have an active role that isn't very important. In Vietnam, Australia was very active and important to the war effort mainly due in part to their proximity. Actually, from what I know about modern Australia they have a very good working relationship with Communist China, despite the rare dispute here and there, and Russia.

Australia was very directly standing against Japan in WW2. They were even invaded by Japanese armed forces at one point.

We never had enough troops to do so [invade Australia]. We had already far out-stretched our lines of communication. We did not have the armed strength or the supply facilities to mount such a terrific extension of our already over-strained and too thinly spread forces. We expected to occupy all New Guinea, to maintain Rabaul as a holding base, and to raid Northern Australia by air. But actual physical invasion—no, at no time.

Australia was very directly standing against Japan in WW2. They were even invaded by Japanese armed forces at one point.

Only if you count a couple of Midget Submarines as an "Invasion".

They bombed Darwin a couple of times too IIRC.

obviously not the whole world, seeing as the us and commies are fighting my guess is Austrailian is the same (name the last war they where in) I mean WHO would bomb austrailia?

In 2077, the storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders. And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise.

The earth was nearly wiped clean of life. A great cleansing, an atomic spark struck by human hands, quickly raged out of control. Spears of nuclear fire rained from the skies. Continents were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans. Humanity was almost extinguished, their spirits becoming part of the background radiation that blanketed the earth.

One of the recurring themes of Fallout is that life will find a way to continue, albeit often under great struggles and with violence and suffering. It's not unreasonable, given this notion, to presume that U.S. remnant forces remain in parts of China, just as remnant Chinese elements are in the U.S.; and that other countries are similarly ravaged and war-torn, with survivors crawling out of the rubble. If Australia was untouched by the war, for instance, then presumably after 200 years they would have projected their powerful industrial presence and comparatively high population all around the globe to take control of any remaining resources, and the Enclave would find itself locked in a war with the Aussies. It's likely that some underpopulated parts of the third world escaped the full brunt of nuclear devastation, but since these would have been low-population unindustrialized areas anyway, they are not exactly in a position to take advantage of their "good fortune," such as it is. (I don't imagine that many nukes were wasted on the Sahara.)

Other countries, seeing the US's missiles on their way, fire their warheads as well. What ensues is two hours of nuclear bombardment upon the earth's surface.

Tenpenny Tower was slightly inspired by Fiddler's Green, the skyscraqer in George Romero's Land of the Dead. But it was also an opportunity to introduce another character from outside the U.S. Allistair Tenpenny came to the Capital Wasteland from Great Britain to seek his fortune, so that alone tells you that the U.K. was also hit in the war. And if he came to U.S. to succeed, that says a lot about how screwed up Europe must be. So we just allude, a little bit, to the state of the rest of the world.

Killzig: What ever happened to the catholic church in the FO universe?

Tim Cain: I think it was nuked - the vatican that is.

Tenpenny coming to the United States in search of opportunity may actually say a lot more about how much better off the UK is than the US. For instance, Tenpenny had to travel across the Atlantic Ocean to get here, which says there must be a civilization with the resources to ferry people across entire oceans. Because of this prosperity, or perhaps intense communitarian civilization there would not be very many opportunities for an amoral capitalist/opportunist. Thus, he would come to a shattered, weak country in order to reap enormous profits out of a ripe and lawless land.

Also, Moriarty came from Ireland, which also says someting about Ireland being able to send people across oceans.

Well, speaking of the IRA, I suppose nuclear holocaust freed the Emerald Isle. Maybe the only people in control on the island IS the IRA.

And another note on the UK, if we are keeping with the whole 1950s vibe, the UK was under a strong socialist democracy started by Attlee and the Labor Party. Quite frankly, perhaps the strong sense of social values and a powerful mass labor movement kept Britain from completely going to the pitts. On a speculative note, perhaps a real Marxist democracy now exists in Britain, seeing how capitalism and Communism have essentially been destroyed.