Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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#fallout #lore #alternatehistory

The Fallout franchise, known for its post-apocalyptic setting following a nuclear war between China and the U.S., is also set apart by its lack of technologies based on the transistor and its Cold War cultural aesthetic. But how plausible is such an alternate history?

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- CHAPTERS -
00:00 Intro
01:16 Historical & Technological Divergence
05:10 The Atompunk Genre
07:46 Vault-Tec's Plans for Destruction
11:20 Surface Environments
14:46 Final Thoughts & Outro