Forum:Storyline?

so, I rly like the story of Fallout3 but the information provided about the great war is just not enough. Maybe you guys can answer some questions.

So did the USA retaliate with nuclear weapons or were they just being surprised by china? Hasn't the USA had troops over in china that were about to conquer it? What about australia, africa, south america? did bombs go down there too or is only north america a wasteland and the civilization everywhere else continuing? I mean 200 years are a very long time, if one nation didn't get crushed in the war it would be just overpowered wouldn't it?

Please tell me some facts about and around the great war.

The war against China has been going for ages, Europe was also fighting Saudi Arabian Emirates for their oil at the same time. But as far as I know Alaska was captured by China and was then liberated with the help of USA guys in power armour. Then just before the bombs dropped the USA was actually on the verge of capturing China with the help of various robots and power armour. It could be assumed that in a last-ditch attempt China nuked USA so as to not be defeated or it could be another country. It's never confirmed who launched the ICBM's first. What I'm about to say may seem a little radical but MABYE the Enclave (US Government launched the nukes at itself). After all, they were safe in their private bunkers and they wanted to test the vaults so what did they have to lose. Then the rest of the world would have a reason to attack china and the Enclave could just watch in the comfort and luxury of their bunkers as the world destroyed itself. What do you think of this idea?
 * The whole world was nuked in the same 2 hours. No one knows who was the first to push the button, but as soon as he did, all the world's countries sent their nukes flying at each other. Ausir 03:44, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Why would a country's government nuke all of its citizens? They actually had a lot to lose, seeing as they probably wanted to leave their bunkers at some point and rebuild, and there is no point in wasting a payload of nukes worth well over 100 billion dollars, only to cause damage to yourself?

It doesn't really matter, but I would to see what happened to Canada. I mean, USA were annexing it, so maybe whoever lauched the bombs thought of them as USA ? And since in Quebec it's colder, what kind of mutants developed there ?

unless there were us testing done their there wouldnt be all of the mutants come from the fev, ghouls from radiation and fev.

Maybe in the future, for DLC, you could play as someone else in china or another country and see what has happened to the rest of the world

It is a 100% positivity that the US fired some nukes at china some of them are missing from fort Constantine user:weber134

the nukes in fort Constantine are ones that would be dropped by plane the ICBM at the fort should have been used but it wasnt neither was B.O.M.B. used which doesnt make much sense.Maccy Man wrote this. 04:26, 12 February 2009 (UTC)