Why did the bombs drop in the first place? It happened as a result of a global war. The town of Shady Sands, which plays a role in "Fallout," was founded in 2142. As society continued to rebuild ...

This explanation for why Vault-Tec dropped the first bombs in the war fits perfectly into Fallout‘s narrative. If no nuclear bombs drop, then no one needs Vault-Tec or fallout shelters anymore.

"No significant danger is-expected in the near future from radioactive fallout," Dr. Shields Warren, professor of Pathology at the Harvard Medical School, told a sparse New Lecture Hall gathering ...

Unlike the games, which tend to pick a single timeline and stick with it, Fallout hops back and forth in time to explain the staggered events leading up to its nuclear apocalypse. We know that ...