Did anywhere NOT get nuked in Fallout?

[Altorin]

Europe? Would be weird if Europe got hit.

Not if America and china had miltary bases there

But the fallout 3 timeline excists 200 years after the war. so radiation should have vleared by now, but in Fallout 3 every bit of wate is irradiated. pretty strange.

Do you know the halflife of plutonium? I mean neither do I but you should check that out if you want to make cliams like that.

according to wikipedia, depending on the isotope of plutonium it ranges from 84 years (238pu) to 8,080,000 years (244pu).

If it's the 84 year halflife isotope, most of the radiation present in fallout would dissipate in about 200 years. *shrug*

 

[Phenns]

Australia probably is fine. I mean, unless they got involved somehow, they're pretty out of the way I guess.

 

[razing32]

Even if no nukes hit, radiation would have definitely hit everywhere.
The radioactive cloud from Chernobyl affected a lot of Europe and that was just a reactor, not a purpose built bomb.

At least a bomb kills you on sight, without making you have to go through radiation poisoning...

 

[Altorin]

Even if no nukes hit, radiation would have definitely hit everywhere.
The radioactive cloud from Chernobyl affected a lot of Europe and that was just a reactor, not a purpose built bomb.

At least a bomb kills you on sight, without making you have to go through radiation poisoning...

that's pretty much why the game is called Fallout. Fallout is really the killer in a nuclear explosion, and it can effect areas of hundreds of miles outside the actual blast radius, depending on the winds.

 

[TheTejs]

Denmark prolly, as it's in the middle between china and US (sorta)
WOOHOO
I'M GOING TO SURVIVE THE NUCLEAR WAR US VS CHINA
(oh... Nukes? fuck...)

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

...Australia maybe...I think, it pretty far off but then again radiation from that incident with the power plant in russia, cher-something i can't quite recall the name

 

[Wintermoot]

point lookout isnt a wasteland its still radiated but doing fine
maybe parts of russia maybe australia possibly parts of africa

 

[Altorin]

Denmark prolly, as it's in the middle between china and US (sorta)
WOOHOO
I'M GOING TO SURVIVE THE NUCLEAR WAR US VS CHINA
(oh... Nukes? fuck...)

Denmark would be overlooked for the same reason that fruit flies can survive in the microwave oven

 

[razing32]

I got it ...

If anyone here is a lead-miner you can be sure you'll survive !

 

[Altorin]

I got it ...

If anyone here is a lead-miner you can be sure you'll survive !

lol, yeah, a "Lead Miner" certainly has a long an illustrious life ahead of him.

 

[Mr.PlanetEater]

Well pretty much nothing got spared from at least one nuke so no, as for the whole scheme the entire world is still going to be f-ed up the butt by radiation, so even if say Australia wasn't hit by a nuke it'd still have gotten owned by the radiation.

To put in real world perspective, if the Cold War Nukes were launched pretty much only Russia and America would have been hit by the Nuclear bombs but both countries had enough stockpiled to make the Northern and most of the Southern hemisphere uninhabitable for centuries.

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

Europe? Would be weird if Europe got hit.

Not if America and china had miltary bases there

But the fallout 3 timeline excists 200 years after the war. so radiation should have vleared by now, but in Fallout 3 every bit of wate is irradiated. pretty strange.

Do you know the halflife of plutonium? I mean neither do I but you should check that out if you want to make cliams like that.

according to wikipedia, depending on the isotope of plutonium it ranges from 84 years (238pu) to 8,080,000 years (244pu).

If it's the 84 year halflife isotope, most of the radiation present in fallout would dissipate in about 200 years. *shrug*

Yeah ok I see your point, but remember that Both countries wanted to fuck each other up as much as possible so they'd probably try to get the long lasting isotope

 

[Fetzenfisch]

If China is the Big Boogeyman, the US will probably have had a base or more around Australia.

 

[Svenparty]

The Fallout franchise is about Americas view of the futures based on upcoming cold war threats and Science Fiction technology. I don't think it'll ever be set anywhere but America.

It's established that MOST of the world was hit by the nukes.

 

[Cheesus333]

Switzerland, maybe?

They're neutral, and I've heard (albeit not very reliably, might wanna consider that) that they already have underground vaults IRL, so... aside from a demolished landscape, the country itself might be getting by okay.

 

[Viik]

Ever single evidence that I recal of actuall nukes existance in Fallout is the Megaton city. Which actually had something that looked like old-school big bomb, everything else is just a constant bla-bla-bla about nukes and bombs and no other evidence except SOME irradiated areas. Power of nuke in enermous amount of energy releised in a metter of seconds - explosion itself, not a resulting fallout. But in game we only see irradiated places and mutated environment, no evidences of actuall explosions.

...Australia maybe...I think, it pretty far off but then again radiation from that incident with the power plant in russia, cher-something i can't quite recall the name

Chernobyl, its in Ukraine, just 100 km from capital - Kiev. It's not comparible to nukes, nukes leave much smaller fallout.

 

[Warforger]

just wondering did anywhere NOT get nuked in Fallout because most of the major cities seemed to get leveled and even whenever places like New Vegas AREN'T nuked they still seem to be a wasteland, so aside from the threads obvious question another one would be which countries weren't affected? my guess would be the likes of Ireland, Finland, Norway and a few asian and african ones

Tenpenny Tower in Fallout 3, it looks alright.

 

[SimuLord]

The intro to Fallout 1 mentions a global black rain that deposited fallout around the globe, killing what was left of the ecosystem.

Also, plenty of places not directly hit by the bombs got their dose of radiation some other way, like Pittsburgh, which by virtue of sitting at the confluence of three rivers got well and truly irradiated. I imagine anyplace near a river suffered the same fate, and the rest got groundwater corruption (unless it just got lucky---like the Goodsprings Source in New Vegas which somehow escaped getting irradiated to the point where locals were able to tap it.)

 

[Ih8pkmn]

Canada. Seriously why would the Chinese or the Americans nuke Canada.

[small] But its still probably fucked up from the radiation. [/small]

Canada was annexed by the US in the Fallout Universe. so it more likely than not got a nuke
burrito.

Speaking of burritos, Mexico didn't get hit, but it probably is still inhaling fallout.

 

[georgelangham]

It doesn't matter if they got hit or not they are still boned, it was a full scale thermonuclear war, if you didn't get nuked the fallout would effect at least 10 mile radius, killing or irradiating everything.
Hiroshima was a tiny nuke, it still levelled a fair few miles, if a modern nuke went off expect it to take out A lot more than that.