↑ Newscaster: "And now, our exclusive coverage of the continuing volatile situation with Communist China.↑ Capitol Post newspaper Monday, January 11, 2077.↑ Capitol Post terminal entries Capital Post Top Stories - January 11, 2077, Commies Crushed - Alaska Liberated!.The war with China had finally reached its cataclysmic conclusion."
↑ Fallout 4 loading screens: "On the morning of Saturday, OctoAmerica was consumed by the flames of nuclear war.In the United States, a fortunate minority escaped to the safety of great underground Vaults." ↑ Fallout 76 loading screens: "On October 23, 2077, in what came to be known as the "Great War", the world was engulfed in nuclear fire.
In the Fallout intro, the narrator states that "the storm of world war had come again." On the back of the Fallout Trilogy PC box, the war is called World War III. being hit at 9:47 AM, five minutes after. New York and Pennsylvania were hit at 9:42 AM, with Boston and Washington, D.C.
House shares that the platinum chip was to be delivered in the afternoon of October 23, "but by then, the world had ended."
Other first responders persisted, mobilizing to provide order and crisis relief. Despite efforts by the military to bolster relief efforts, disarray and the onset of radiation sickness resulted in many deserting their posts. Īlthough emergency response units and elements of the National Guard were mobilized on the evening of October 22, their ability to provide aid to victims and refugees was decreased by the lack of any centralized command and control, resulting from electromagnetic pulses which disabled communications equipment. Some thought the warnings were another drill and did not report to their assigned vaults. A relative few were able to reach safety in underground vaults constructed by the Vault-Tec Corporation. Las Vegas was spared a direct nuclear strike as Robert House had also prepared for the inevitability, disabling or destroying 68 out of the 77 warheads heading for the city. According to President Dick Richardson, the United States had prepared ahead of time, mitigating losses. The Chinese stealth submarine Yangtze launched its missiles at the American east coast from the Boston waterway.
The nuclear exchange continued for two hours. By 09:47 EST, facilities had gone offline. Nuclear bombs hit Pennsylvania and New York at 09:42 EST. Unclear where the bombs came from or who initiated launch first, air raid sirens sounded, and at 09:26 EST, the president ordered a retaliatory strike according to scenario MX-CN91. Six hours later, at 09:13 EST, the Integrated Operational Nuclear Detection System detected the first four missile launches and the United States moved to DEFCON 2.įour minutes later, NORAD reported confirmed strikes. At 03:37 EST, a squadron of high-altitude bombers were sighted off the Bering Strait. Submarines were identified by COMPACFLT at 00:03 EST off the coast of California. The war both began and ended on October 23, 2077.