Actually no. Radiation of that magnitude would stick around for at least a millennium. Check out Dr. Kaku's take on it.John the Gamer said:
Did anywhere NOT get nuked in Fallout?
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Did the capital get directly nuked?
I mean, its pretty much intact, a nuclear bomb will not just break a couple chucks o' wall and a few buildings.
Then again I'm not so familiar with Fallout..
I mean, its pretty much intact, a nuclear bomb will not just break a couple chucks o' wall and a few buildings.
Then again I'm not so familiar with Fallout..
Im sure someone woulod have taken Antartica for the oil fields (I think there are some) By now.Benmonkey7 said:
I can think of a few places where nukes may not have hit...
South America, The better part of Australia (Although they would only have no nuke Sydney and we would be screwed), Eastern Russia (Siberia) Eastern Europe, and parts of Africa.
If New Vegas lore is anything to go by, it is almost certain that most citys have certain Laser Defence Systems.Alon Shechter said:
Im thinking that when the nukes are sailing over to Washington, they managed to shoot down the ones that would have directly hit the city.
Ones still hit the outskirts of the city, however (See, Megaton) and this was enough to do massive damage to the city.
It is possible that additional damage was inflicted by varios looters and after-war mutants.
I think a few places got hit directly with nukes. Other places might have been hit with nucleur fallout.
Still it's odd.Lasers seem more promising for the future. You are not limited by anything other than power supply.
Michio Kaku in his "Science of the impossible" series mentioned that lasers have huge potential as weapons even going as far as destroying asteroids or possibly planets.
Michio Kaku in his "Science of the impossible" series mentioned that lasers have huge potential as weapons even going as far as destroying asteroids or possibly planets.
Well, FO3 is partially inspired by the Mad Max movie, so I'd say that sounds about right.Kimarous said:
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Umm...John the Gamer said:
The half-life of the Uranium isotope used in all nuclear missiles nowdays has a half-life of 250,000 years. It's not like Chernobyl or even Hiroshima; those guys got off lucky compared to what we have today.
You know, irradiation is a method used to preserve food...Calbeck said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation
Ok, while not everywhere was nuked, most population centers were and the places that weren't have been screwed by the radiation/break down of society.Josh12345 said:
The only place completely unaffected was the Enclave headquaters that lied in the middle of the sea, and it was built there for that very reason.
Consider this: According to a character in New Vegas, 77 warheads targeted Vegas and the surrounding area. In the entire Mojave area, there are few targets of strategic worth (in approximate order of their strategic value):
Nellis AFB (Houses significant air power assets that could be used in a counter attack or any future military operation)
Hoover Damn (Provides power and flood control. Destruction of this asset would cause region wide blackouts and brownouts reducing the effectiveness of any activity in the region for a significant period of time)
Las Vegas (Home to ~2,000,000 people. The economic impact of the destruction of such a city is minimal as is the military impact as the economy of the city is based almost entirely around vice and tourism rather than meaningful production).
That's really it. Three targets. Three nukes is all it would take. If China allotted 77 to the region, then I suspect you get a sense of the scale of the war. Hell, DC should have been dust not rubble. The same would go for major industrial and economic centers. That means NYC, Detroit, Pittsburgh, LA, Seattle, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta - all of them would be dust.
This leads to a key problem with the fallout universe: a lack of logical consistency. If Vegas warranted 77 nukes, why didn't Pittsburgh, former home of the US steel industry (and, if the game is to be believed, still home in 2077 when the bombs fell) warrant at least a few?
The bottom line is simple enough: there are several thousand targets of strategic worth in the US, from ports to population centers, to industrial centers to military targets. The three targets in Vegas were more than 20 apiece. That implies that the exchange sent tens, if not hundreds of thousands of bombs to the US alone. You can bet the US responded in kind. Any nation not hit would suffer the perils of nuclear winter, extreme fallout, sudden power vacuum, and an utter lack of energy resources. The war was, after all, the result of the inevitable depletion of oil reserves. Before the great war, the Middle East destroyed itself in a local nuclear exchange.
So, to put it simply, even if a nation wasn't hit with a bomb, it certainly all but fell apart in the aftermath. The fallout lore more or less indicates the world of humanity all but ended inside of a few hours. Few who were not protected by a vault (or an equivalent) survived.
Nellis AFB (Houses significant air power assets that could be used in a counter attack or any future military operation)
Hoover Damn (Provides power and flood control. Destruction of this asset would cause region wide blackouts and brownouts reducing the effectiveness of any activity in the region for a significant period of time)
Las Vegas (Home to ~2,000,000 people. The economic impact of the destruction of such a city is minimal as is the military impact as the economy of the city is based almost entirely around vice and tourism rather than meaningful production).
That's really it. Three targets. Three nukes is all it would take. If China allotted 77 to the region, then I suspect you get a sense of the scale of the war. Hell, DC should have been dust not rubble. The same would go for major industrial and economic centers. That means NYC, Detroit, Pittsburgh, LA, Seattle, Dallas, Houston, Atlanta - all of them would be dust.
This leads to a key problem with the fallout universe: a lack of logical consistency. If Vegas warranted 77 nukes, why didn't Pittsburgh, former home of the US steel industry (and, if the game is to be believed, still home in 2077 when the bombs fell) warrant at least a few?
The bottom line is simple enough: there are several thousand targets of strategic worth in the US, from ports to population centers, to industrial centers to military targets. The three targets in Vegas were more than 20 apiece. That implies that the exchange sent tens, if not hundreds of thousands of bombs to the US alone. You can bet the US responded in kind. Any nation not hit would suffer the perils of nuclear winter, extreme fallout, sudden power vacuum, and an utter lack of energy resources. The war was, after all, the result of the inevitable depletion of oil reserves. Before the great war, the Middle East destroyed itself in a local nuclear exchange.
So, to put it simply, even if a nation wasn't hit with a bomb, it certainly all but fell apart in the aftermath. The fallout lore more or less indicates the world of humanity all but ended inside of a few hours. Few who were not protected by a vault (or an equivalent) survived.