Great War

The Great War started and ended on Saturday, October 23, 2077, when nuclear weapons were launched by all the nuclear-capable nations of the Fallout world, mainly from the United States, China and the USSR. The exchange lasted for approximately two hours, according to most survivors' accounts. Once the last atomic bomb and nuclear warhead had fallen, the world fell into the deep darkness of a nuclear holocaust, resulting in the majority of human civilization crumbling across the planet. In the decades that followed, what was once the territory of the contiguous United States gave birth to the treacherous and unforgiving wastelands loathed by the people now residing in the lands of the former country.