Did anywhere NOT get nuked in Fallout?

[Blindswordmaster]

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

Have you ever been to Las Vegas? It's basically huge, glowly, fun city, surrounded by desolate desert. For miles and fucking miles.

 

[Ldude893]

I think islands in the pacific like Hawaii and Fiji went through the Nuclear Holocaust unharmed. Maybe Australia, too.

 

[Lord Kloo]

Yeah I know the real commonwealth was the remnants of the old British Empire I was talking about the so-called 'fallout universe' commonwealth of Europe.. True it did seem a bit unclear..

 

[Calbeck]

If you look at the map of the todays Commonwealth, you will see that it didn't cover much ground in Europe at all.

Fallout has a European Commonwealth instead of an EU. Nothing to do with the entirely separate Commonwealth of former English colonies. Different history, y'know.

 

[LongAndShort]

Australia. And New Zealand. We'd be sitting down hear, watching the world die and rubbing our hands at how many sheep we're gonna sell.

 

[Calbeck]

well, now that you mention it, maybe the Republic of Molossia, thats a very, VERY, strong maybe.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Molossia

Fallout: Kickassia would be AWESOME. -

 

[CountryMike]

Europe? Would be weird if Europe got hit.

It would be weird if they didn't. All US allies would be nuked by the Chinese

 

[Souplex]

What of Australia, though? Surely a place that secluded must have gotten off easy.

I think Australia was spared the carnage in the lore, wasn't it?

Directly, at least. I also recall hearing that they fell into anarchy during their isolation from the rest of the world.

Nuclear winter would kill off all of Austrailia's native wildlife, making surviving in a mostly rural place incredibly difficult.

 

[sanguis3k]

If i remember correctly America got carpet bombed with nukes according to the old lore from the D20 books and the instruction manuals from FO1 & FO2 certain area's didn't go up or evaded hits because the nukes were aimed mainly at urban centers.

outside of the american region china originally was nuked in retaliation to the first strike on america but that was retconned in Mothership Zeta to 101 seeing the alien death ray wiping that country out. the other countries were also hit but nowhere near as much since only china and america actually had a really big stockpile of nukes but largely due to the two biggest powers in the world basically being taken out the power vacuum lead to massive infighting and trouble which ended up with most the world ending up at a sort of Feudal state where small areas are controlled by a few people or are there more out of convenience and safety rather than people controlling things.

there always was a bit of a hint in the D20 books i thought that part of one of the later additions to the game was going to be set later on in the timeline when things are sort of rebuilt and america has to start dealing with those groups left over which is why all the groundwork i just outlined had been done

 

[John the Gamer]

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.

The science of Fallout is the Science! of 50s B Movies.

Yeah... I'd be fine with it if there were more dragons and/or mutants wich look like dragons...

Dragons are totally Awesome.

 

[Kitteh]

Aw does this mean santa is in his fallout shelter?

 

[Silva]

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.

Well, it's possible that in the Fallout universe's nuclear war, cobalt bombs were used, and they are made to make radiation last as long as possible, with a full life of each of 10.52 years. Sickening tools, they are. Yet as you say, even their radiation would've faded after 200 years.

Yet, adiation from things other than bombs can take a lot longer than that to disappear. Particularly when you consider that almost everything in that world is explosive AND nuclear powered. And toxic waste is a common sight as a result of all this reliance.

The radiation from the bombs might have cleared, but the rest probably adds to the amount of radiation in that world's atmosphere.

 

[CountryMike]

The Fallout Bible explains what happened to Europe:

"2060: The Euro-Middle Eastern War ends as the oil fields in the Middle East run dry. There is no longer a goal in the conflict, and both sides are reduced almost to ruin."

"The European Commonwealth dissolves into quarreling nation states, fighting over the remaining resources"

 

[Hargrimm]

It's really astounding how many people fail to read the Fallout lore.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_Wiki
seriously, it's just a quick google search away

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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?
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The problems with consistency are mostly due to FO3 and Bethesda failing to do proper research.
LA was pretty much turned into Dust. It's more commonly known as the Boneyard in Fallout 1. There is nothing left standing that is higher than the 1st floor and even then it's just a few charred walls.

"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. We like to leave a lot to the players' imaginations, and somebody like Tenpenny serves as a catalyst for those thoughts." - Emil Pagliarulo
(Apparently this has already been quoted, but whatever.)

England would be interesting but......

"Allistair Tenpenny... snip

snip

This is another thing thats stupid about FO3. How exactly is he supposed to get over the atlantic ocean? He would have needed to survive the Fallout, find or build a ship, find a crew and enough supplies for both him and the crew to make the journey. Not to mention the dangers of crossing the atlantic ocean. Even if he could have managed to do all that, why would he bother? I mean it's common knowledge that it was a GLOBAL thermonuclear war. So why would he think he was better off wasting his resources to get to America?
There is no reason for him to be in the game (or rather, from England).
If Bethesda only wanted to show us how screwed up the US is, like Emil said in the quote, I think the wasteland speaks for itself.
Okay, rant over.

Oh, btw http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Ghouls