Who dropped the bombs that caused the fallout?

[MHG8792]

I always wondered about this

[KoalafiedKiller]

As in who allegedly did it or who REALLY did it?

The war was between China and the US, but vault Tec itself may have dropped the first bombs.

[MHG8792]

but why would it be vault-tec that would do such a thing?

[Viral]

China and vault tech.

[Foxinthesky™]

in fallout 2 the president says that china did it but that dosent mean anything

[KoalafiedKiller]

Originally posted by XxLambOfGodxX:

but why would it be vault-tec that would do such a thing?

Mad scientists who wanted to study human behavior in extreme cases. Nearly every vault was a very cruel experiment on human behavior.

[Biidi]

Originally posted by XxLambOfGodxX:

but why would it be vault-tec that would do such a thing?

I think the theory is that they put so much money and resources into the Vaults that it'd be a waste to not use them, so they engineered WW3.

[TurboDell]

Originally posted by Biidi:

Originally posted by XxLambOfGodxX:

but why would it be vault-tec that would do such a thing?

I think the theory is that they put so much money and resources into the Vaults that it'd be a waste to not use them, so they engineered WW3.

Plus they wanted to build a new society based on their most successful vault.

[Yhwach]

Vault-Tec, in fear their vaults would never be used, and China / USA would finally come to terms, so they "advanced" the war to the final stage.

[Reverend Belial]

China. The Vault-Tec theory is a crock of ♥♥♥♥.

China launched (or more accurately dropped, since they were mostly delivered by stealthed bomber planes) their payload of nukes because the U.S. and their far superior technology (mainly power armor) was decimating them in their war for Alaska and were beginning to drop troops into China proper. The Chinese government was terrified of what would happen when the American troops finally won (which they would have unquestionably), and so decided to try to wipe them out once and for all to ensure that even if they didn't survive then their enemies wouldn't either.

Nuclear weapons in Fallout were designed for a higher radiation yield rather than an explosive one so the collective fallout of an entire nation's worth of nuclear bombs dropping on a country fuelled almost exclusively by nuclear power covered the globe in radiation and brought about the apocalypse.

[Zeon08]

actualy it was done by military AI who was bored. play F2 m8

[Spookiest.of'Spookehs]

Joe from Human Resources spilled his coffee on the terminal and accidently pressed the "Big Red Button" while wiping it up with a paper towel.

The rest is history.

[WarMachine]

Regardless of who initiated it, the news anchor in the begining makes it sound as though China launched first, the US was getting stuck and launching at the same time.

[Rommel]

Originally posted by XxLambOfGodxX:

I always wondered about this

It was the Germans and they also bomb pearl harbor. My buddy John told me this...........

[Gon]

Originally posted by Zeon08:

actualy it was done by military AI who was bored. play F2 m8

Skynet? Yeah... Even Black Isle said he was lying/mistaken.

[Gon]

Originally posted by Maria Francis:

lore doesn't mention that China was nuked ten times over because the USA is more developed. It was an American who invented Little Boy and Fatman.

We don't know how developed China was in the pre-war Fallout universe. The USA had min nukes and Fatman tech. China had stealth suits, which I'd argue would be more high-tech.