FALLOUT Lore: Prologue – Great War

The Great War – a global nuclear war between the United States and China that saw atomic bombs dropping across the surface of the globe

The Resource Wars, the global fight for oil between the major powers, saw China and the United States as the sole remaining superpowers afterward. Atomic energy and nuclear technology had replaced much of the energy supplied by fossil fuels, yet not everything could be transitioned off of oil and onto new atomic technologies. Initially, China invaded the United States at Alaska, a popular campaign DLC for the legendary Fallout 3, and were repelled. Eventually this led to nuclear annihilation and nuclear winter with only the people who had reserved spaces in Vault Tec’s vaults were spared.