Forum:What happened to other countries during the Great War?

What happened to other countries during the great war? Were they annihilated? Like did Europe survive or anything? Or Africa? Plus, what about the numerous Anti - Missile Facilities that would've destroyed the nukes in their orbital flight stage? I detect gaps in Fallout!

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Countries ; as for anti-missle technology, there's an easy way to beat that - build more nukes. Agent c 21:23, October 9, 2010 (UTC)

What Anti-Missile technology? Everything was still Retro-50s, and Anti-Ballistic missals need SERIOUS computing power, and serious miniaturization of said computing power. Anyways, if I recall, ICBMs were minorities in the launching systems. --Revolverman 10:32, October 10, 2010 (UTC)

I agree with Retroman, although I have to comment that even though the US and Russia had tons of nukes in multiple areas to blow up the world more than once, we had a whole series of different ways to deliver nukes on different scales. For example, a launcher as small as an MLRS can deliver a relatively weak (by nuclear standards) warhead over dozens of kilometers. Likewise, bombs were in place, and so were the famed ICBMs, which could be launched from all sorts of naval vessels and also from installations on the mainland. It was set up so that even if a lot of the ICBMs didnt make it (and your average late war ICBM could drop some of the most powerful nukes known to man on multiple targets, making them exponentially more powerful than just about all the other types of nukes), or some of the small missiles, bombers, etc. were shot down, each country would still have a large arsenal of nuclear weapons at their disposal to attack in any number of ways. Complete overkill. This sort of system would be fairly hard to defend against if properly applied. Also, the Fallout world is not completely realistic and I see where you're coming from. After all, if people could make deadly handheld lasers, couldn't they easily afford whole batteries of larger anti-missile and aircraft lasers? If they can build talking protectrons and sentient subway computers, couldn't they at least make some sort of functional auto-defense system? The answer is probably yes, but, either way, the FO universe is pure fiction, and is largely from a retro-future perspective, that is - what people in the 50s and crap thought the future might look like. Back then, the idea of ballistic missile defenses were probably at best a theoretical chalkboard concept, not something everyone commonly believed would be the future. Basically, the game is a mixture of general creativity with the perspective of an older American culture. Its meant to be more of a sort of nostalgia + mad max sort of experience, not the sort of international political/military conflicts you'd see in, say, a Tom Clancy novel. In a nutshell, none of your questions answers is really explained in the Fallout series, and there's some serious indication that it never will be. User:Mmaster211 7:03, October 11, 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, with the advent of the MIRV and its ecm/decoy capabilities, it's cheaper and more efficient to just pray, or cry in the closet or whatever. MFToast - talk 17:03, October 14, 2010 (UTC)

Mexico and Canada were nuked, Europe was completely destroyed by a decade of conventional warfare, then nuked, China was nuked to oblivion, and the Soviet Union was also most likely nuked to Hell. --GaussRifle 16:19, June 17, 2011 (UTC)

The U.S. was nuked too (as evident by the Wasteland, radioactive fallout, mutations, etc), but it is still kicking around. People and some culture has survived, so why not in other countries?--DarkCheshire 03:16, June 23, 2011 (UTC)
 * Europe was already destroyed by the time the bombs fell (Imagine another nuclear war AFTER the Great War). America's retaliation most likely demolished China (Their population centers are extremely dense and close together).--GaussRifle 07:12, June 23, 2011 (UTC)

yeah, its pretty egotistical to think that the u.s. are the only survivors. Moriarty is from European commonwealth- Scotland or watevr. i assume Africa and south America wouldn't have been hit because of their lack of strategic and political positions. but if i were launching nukes id say "why not" if ony to prevent others from getting control of it. JimmyDreznaut017

I think that at least the UK is still around mostly because Tenpenny stated he is in fact from the UK and unless he is over 200 years old I think the US isn't the only survivors.