Fallout's Most Destroyed Locations

[@vicho451]

A note about Boston surviving the great war mostly intact: a type of nuclear bomb is the neutron bomb, which is characterized by having a relatively low explosive yield while producing a massive (but short lived) amount of radiation, meaning this leaves most of the structures intact, while killing everyone and everything. The Cambridge crater could have been the ground zero of such bomb.

[@gregorrogerg1005]

There's also a nuke I found in game that crashed into a building roof in downtown Boston but it didn't detonate for some reason

[@stealthSGMB]

@@gregorrogerg1005 That actually sounds interesting, where in downtown exactly?

[@gregorrogerg1005]

@@stealthSGMB I have no idea I found it once on a play through but idk what building it's in

[@TheMaghorn]

A neutron bomb could have been what created the Glowing Sea, most likely, but it's confirmed in game that the rest of the city was targeted by the missiles from the Yangzee submarine. Those would have also been low yield, but they were even smaller warheads, so the destruction would have been even less. Most of the bombs deployed in the Great War were low yield explosives, meant to cause as many casualties as possible.

[@memes_man52]

@@TheMaghorn doesn't a neutron bomb leave infrastructures relatively intact? The glowing sea is just a batter wasteland, a big bomb must have hit it. Plus there is a destroyed nuclear power plant there, so probably all that radiation comes from there

[@devinw1507]

As someone who lived in Bakersfield, the damage was probably an upgrade.

[@elilachappa3330]

Having grown up in socal, I wonder what happened to towns like San Bernardino, Hemet, Temecula, big bear. The lesser known but heavily populated areas

[@timothycreed3452]

Temecula resident here. Wondered about this as well. Considering nearby March AFB currently houses nuclear weapons irl; it's most definitely on the target list. All those cities you mentioned are within 30-40 miles away, so we're receiving significant nuclear fallout. No direct hits, but 100% affected.

[@glamrockbonnie5983]

Canyon laker here we would be somewhat okay

[@timothycreed3452]

@@glamrockbonnie5983 Was just at Canyon Lake doing boat stuff. Mirelurk haven.

[@glamrockbonnie5983]

@@timothycreed3452 fo 3 or fo types ?

[@MissSimone02]

In regards to Pittsburg basically up until the 70's the steel working job economy was huge. It wasn't until around then places like Pittsburgh and Detroit had their industrial centers outsourced to China. With consideration to the Red Scare that's heavily documented in the Fallout timeline, this outsourcing probably would have NEVER happened thus leaving Pittsburgh's steel industry relatively intact and thus a target for nuclear destruction. That's my hypothesis based on what we know 😊 Great job on the video though!

[@giovannicervantes2053]

THUS TROGLODYTE DEGENERATION CONDITION!

[@fromthefire4176]

I’m from around Pittsburgh and you’ve made a great point. All the more, there was still a lot of heavy industry, especially along the river for a long time, it was huge in the 50’s too, the average joe could do quite well with a mill job. The deindustrialization of the area has taken decades and caused massive population movement out of the area, as well as a drain of wealth, and while the city recovered economically but most towns around it didn’t. The collapse of the industrial heartland was huge, so I’d imagine in the Fallout universe the country wouldn’t allow their industrial capacity to be outsourced, that’d be a strategic vulnerability in a world where the major trade blocs are continuously preparing to destroy each other not globalize and the economic shifts that brings. It’s likely they kept a lot of the same economic policies of the 50’s especially as this was key to the 50’s vibe which really arose from a strong economy revolving around a middle class majority.

[@MissSimone02]

@@fromthefire4176 I totally agree. In the fallout universe they wouldn't have allowed their major factories to be controlled and subjugated to control from outside forces. So it just makes sense for Pittsburgh to maintain a steel working hub for the US. What I'm surprised to have not seen were pre-war robco factories in the vicinity of the Pitt.

[@MissSimone02]

@@giovannicervantes2053 yup lol

[@giovannicervantes2053]

@@MissSimone02 i played out the events of the pitt like a movie I even came up with a quote before I went into the hole "let's do some blue-collar work" first fight in the pit for the general laborer outfit picked up in the mill 1 endurance strength and Agility second fight in the hole bombshell outfit as explosives but didn't use explosives final fight the armor that makes you shirtless for fire helmet on top of it to make me look even more badass then came the final dilemma I step into the room with the baby in it I'm all scarred up and s*** wearing a mask my character takes it off and looks down at her and just thinks really this? and I looked at the doctor and I say yeah we'll keep her safe cuz I know I'm betraying Werner but I just know that I'm not going to be killing no f****** kid

[@Hoppelite]

Your mic sounds like you're talking through a power armor helmet. good video tho

[@Rad_King]

So the immersion is working or no?

[@trashmammal9203]

@@Rad_King I think it's working

[@net343]

@@Rad_King yeah

[@EpicGamer-kj1tj]

@@net343 yeah

[@thejayera4614]

@@Rad_King yeah

[@pkscarr]

an honorable mention might be New York. It's not directly named as being such, but a member of the Brotherhood in Fallout 4 mentions flying over "hundreds of miles of uninhabitable ruins" (paraphrasing) between the Capitol and Commonwealth areas, which geographically would take it over or very near New York.

[@jackclark4598]

From a holotape on the Prydwen: "On the flight here, we passed city after city. Buildings taller than I've ever seen. Some that nearly clipped the Prydwen. And who uses them now? Mutants. Freaks." NYC has got to have been one of those cities. Fallout universe nukes are such that, even assuming a direct strike in manhattan, the entire skyline wouldn't be evaporated. I wanna climb those skyscrapers. Also, if you're a fan of nyc & the apocalypse, the manhattan level in wolfenstein the new colossus is hauntingly well done.

[@guadalupearias7118]

@@jackclark4598 And imagine exploring the old subway tunnels which have been overrun by ghouls and monsters. And imagine walking through the thick jungle-like vegetation of what was once Central Park.

[@kevincho1187]

Fuck fallout 4, lore wise that game is the worst to base any assumptions on lore. canon to me stopped after NV

[@SrCremeify]

@@kevincho1187 Ok boomer

[@FalloutFan2580]

@@kevincho1187 I think they were more interested in making newer mechanics for the Xbox one during that time then the story I have to say playing it for the first time was awesome but when you get to the end and take over everything in the world with Nuka Raiders then you realize how badly the story sucked and not that many side quests to do. All in all I think they did good bringing newer mechanics in but it cost us a better story with quests. They should have just used Skyrim mechanics if that would have meant a better story with quests in my opinion.

[@SpacedudeProductions]

Also, according to Waking Cloud, after all that nuclear destruction, the White Legs ransacked and salted everything to the point where life could not grow, mutated or not, making Salt Lake City even worse

[@TheScienceguy77]

Imagine wasting salt in a post-apocalyptic scenario. -10 INT right there.

[@spacebearcadet746]

Sulphur can restore salted earth.

[@SpacedudeProductions]

@@spacebearcadet746 yes, but the White Legs still own salt lake city, so it is still salted

[@MrBlue99912]

​@Deniz Metin T. lol

[@ChrisVillagomez]

​@denizmetint.462 Did you know that Rome never actually salted Carthage? They wanted Carthage and it's colonial empire because it was basically the greatest breadbasket of the ancient Mediterranean apart from Egypt so they didn't destroy it's farming ability, in fact they even kep loads of the original Carthaginian infrastructure like the harbor of Carthage itself if I'm not mistaken

[@jaketheberge1970]

Classic Fallout music playing over the Glowing Sea segment is very appropriate.

[@spazzey0]

It really is a reminder of classic fallout due to it's emptiness and vastness.

[@voilvelev6775]

I dont get how he says "the radiation levels are not very high". You need a hazmt suit to go there. Even with Power Armor, you still need to pump yourself up with bunch of radx and have a dozen radaway prepared.

[@jaketheberge1970]

@@voilvelev6775 Compared to some other places it's not that bad as far as rad exposure goes. Some places in Fallout games are so radioactive you can die in under a few minutes.

[@blueclaw6358]

They shoulda mentioned the glow.

[@BelligerentKnight2481]

@@jaketheberge1970 in the case of Vault 87's entrance it is a matter of seconds

[@EvilParagon4]

About the Pitt's unusual radiation, don't forget that it's river is downstream from the Toxic Valley in West Virginia.

[@deepism]

This is a very good point

[@deepism]

Wouldn't surprise me either for that to not be any kind of coincidence. Bethesda tipped us off about Fallout 4 almost 10 years ahead of its release in Fallout 3 with The Replicated Man storyline. They clearly had it all planned out from the beginning.

[@MrWeenuk21]

Deepism's Abyss they had synths and the commonwealth figured out but totally missed the whole great writing and rpg aspect of the fallout series.

[@nichtmenschlich]

The Pitt wasn't a good place before anyways, the river in the toxic valley was polluted via the steel industry there alone, then added radiation from the fallout to the mix. I think the Pitt is actually kinda getting "cleaner" with that water, considering it has a ton more steel production and is more radiated than the toxic valley, since no nukes dropped in West Virginia in the first place (except the one nuke to defeat the scourgebeast canonically)

[@xFAM3xSkollx]

WEST VIRGINIA, MOUNTAIN MAMAAA

[@637dan]

I think you are pretty accurate, based on what we see in fallout 4 and 76, the nuclear weapons definitely impact the ground as you can watch them impact the ground before a exploding.

[@princesstinklepanties2720]

I think that's just oversite from bethesda. Nukes tend to explode in the air for maximum damage since if it exploded on the ground most of the explosive energy would be wasted on creating a crater rather than destroying the target.

[@cousinzeke4888]

The ICBM launched in Lonesome Road goes off in the air.

[@void-master9077]

I believe they go off in the air, but some of them made it to the ground, it would make more sense why the whole of America is destroyed, the Craters are probably just them using the bombs for hard targets, or miscalculation.

[@princesstinklepanties2720]

@@void-master9077 nah most of america is relatively fine, since most radiation barring power plants or some other phenomenon dissapates in around 2 weeks, the reason america is fubar is because fev was released into the atmosphere creating the mutant creatures we see, or weird science shit like big empty. For example russia has 7000 nukes, with a rough explosive range of 50 square miles, doing the math that total would be about the size of texas, but since it's spread out over the whole United States it would only yield a small fraction of the country actually destroyed, we see this in fallout 76 since appalachia is more or less fine, most of the fallout games take place in important places that would be nuked ie california which is already a desert, or D.C which should be obvious why it was heavily nuked it also explains why the mormons still exist since the only target in utah worth nuking is salt lake city which is a tiny part of the whole state leaving the rest decently well off

[@voilvelev6775]

@@princesstinklepanties2720 Oh really? Then what about The Glow? You know, from Fallout 1? Its literally a freaking crater, created by ground impact.

[@Blazinginsquids]

I'd actually be very interested in playing a Fallout game where you're in Denver and need to travel through the top of buildings rather than the ground, depending on how it's used it could also make for an interesting story

[@TheScienceguy77]

Sounds great for a DLC, but not a full game.

[@ryanwiseman9141]

Yeah, like a “the floor is lava” kind of DLC, I’d buy it

[@MrBlue99912]

i agree with everyone else it would make a awesome DLC but would not make a full game

[@nichtmenschlich]

Reverse Metro 2033 / Washington DC

[@Robocopnik]

Maybe there could be a story element where the player somehow clears out additional floors or even repels the packs of dogs from an area, as a way of gating access to different parts of the map (and motivating storyline developments, as others move in on the resources made available by opening up new areas.)

[@captainmorgan2165]

on my list, number one would have to be that one city you "accidentally" blow up with the death laser in Mothership Zeta

[@guadalupearias7118]

The place you blow up is HUGE. Places like Toronto and lake Erie are in the blast zone.

[@dumbidiot5584]

@@guadalupearias7118 i “accidentally” hit Toronto about 20 times then

[@jackpijjin4088]

@@dumbidiot5584 "whoopsie-doodles!"

[@tangocollective-entropysys6676]

I've actually heard that where you hit is some park in the middle of nowhere, hence why you don't lose karma

[@kyleellis1825]

@@tangocollective-entropysys6676 Yeah, Algonquin National Park. Canada is so thinly populated, each of us gets like 8 KM square.

[@VitoTorpedo.]

30:22 Me too, buddy. I mistake them for caps all the time.

[@Rad_King]

Hahaha I’m glad someone else knows the pain. I just wanted a star cap!

[@MaeOnline]

It makes me so happy you talk about the semi non-canon Chicago even though it's discussed in New Vegas~ Illinois feels so left out.

[@battleblaster4203]

Imagine if its fallout 5 And how many trigger men there are

[@voilvelev6775]

@Serious Sketch *Obligatory joke about how Detroit looks like post-apocalypse city right now anyway*

[@TheScienceguy77]

@@voilvelev6775 Chicongo looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland too. They even have a ghoul for a mayor.

[@joeyj6808]

Fallout 5 = Chicago? I would SO dig that!

[@phantomcat1958]

@Serious Sketch isn't it decayed enough?

[@levanalucard851]

By the Waffle House index every place is equally destroyed; and without waffle house

[@WASDLeftClick]

Obviously the real reason American society fell apart after the War was that no one had access to Waffle House anymore.

[@theluftwaffle1]

@@WASDLeftClick Accurate.

[@thecossackcrusaderofholybr8448]

Sam'O nella

[@KSNWreal]

then salt lake has always been destroyed as it has no waffle house

[@rookiedrifter4273]

@@WASDLeftClick The real question we should be asking is if the lack of invention of Waffle House is what ultimately caused the Resource and Great Wars...

[@electrapng]

I think your assessment that Salt Lake City was likely the most destroyed is correct. Info from Honest Hearts/Van Buren seems to corroborate this. I remember a mention of a bunch of Mormons who were in a vault having to build from the ground up when they returned to the surface, as the city was flattened. It was so damaged that New Canaan was essentially built on top of it. It kinda makes you wonder why Salt Lake City was hit so hard of all the major important places in the US. When I think of important cities in the US, SLC doesn’t even make top 10. The Mormon holy land being the number one target for nuclear warheads is hilarious, but pretty strange.

[@caseymorley1388]

Salt Lake City has a some huge army depots and a massive Air Force base. It’s also an international flight hub. SLC has way more military presence than a lot of people think.

[@jakeryan4545]

It is interesting but there could have been a ton of reasons. As others have commented Salt Lake City has a military presence, cities out west tend to have more military presence, thus most Western cities would probably be targeted. Also - the only time atomic bombs were dropped in real life were on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Not Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, or Kyoto. There were of course reasons why this was, but it would be easy to come up with reasons of why certain smaller cities were destroyed over larger ones in Fallout.

[@Xo-3130]

It could be because Salt Lake and the region was irrigated by the Mormans. Its likely that if it wasn't the Mormans could have begun to retake the wasteland. Now image that. Mormans rebuilding America.

[@Hiihtopipa]

I thought there was also a lot of tech companies there (im finnish so sorry if im way wrong :D)

[@jersood9059]

Radiation probably wasn’t as bad though, considering that the city is livable and was considered a good enough place for New Jerusalem. What also confuses me is that only 13 major/noticeable nukes have hit the city, while 9 hit area around Las Vegas. And these numbers can’t be messed up, because it comes from the same developer. Maybe the warheads launched at SLC were simply meant to cause more ground and shockwave impact over radiation? Because the military objects in the city would expected to have bunkers and be prepared for nuclear attack in many other ways?

[@Dank-gb6jn]

Nice mention for Chicago, I love getting more information on “non canon” locations. Would’ve been interesting to get information on places like Carbon Texas, etc. good job!

[@Rad_King]

Did I actually mention Detroit? This isn’t the first comment mentioning Detroit.

[@superthickjonwick9734]

@@Rad_King so i have a concept for a mod, but it would take place in North Carolina. I know you had a video on certain states, but i was wondering how bad it would be targeted. I live here and we have a couple large military bases, but other than that, i would like your opinion on how bad it would be hit. Love the videos by the way. Keep up the amazing work! (Only asking because you're amazing lore videos.)

[@Dank-gb6jn]

@@Rad_King you know what...I think you mentioned Chicago, and somehow my pea sized brain saw it as “Detroit”...sometimes i wonder how I graduated college 😂😂😂😂. That being said, the rest of my comment still stands.

[@DeathSocrates]

@@Rad_King he did mention detroit, in reference to Pittsburgh

[@AaronBish]

Doesn't ED-E have a lot of info about Chicago? I would assume that is solidly in-canon vs Fallout Tactics, at this point.

[@somethingiguess9783]

The amount of radiation in the water in the Pitt, though. I fell off the bridge and immediately got hit with approximately 3,000 rads.

[@apefallout5033]

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a Nuclear Winter

[@tristenkelley357]

If the legion comes here im saving one bullet for myself

[@hxhns]

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a Nuclear Winter

[@voidfields5065]

Ave True to Caesar

[@thewoopertrooper7196]

Hello there good to see a friendly face. I'm missing some supplies so maybe we could trade

[@aestheticzone6164]

Another settlement needs your help I’ll mark it on your map

[@PerishingPurplePulsar]

Ok, so someone may have mentioned this already, or you may bring it up later, but one of the potential reasons (My headcannon, I know loads of Fallout lore, but I am not infallible and may be missing some info that disprove's this) for Boston recieving less warheads than expected may do with the Chinese ability to bomb the East Coast being limited. Essentially, only their Submarine Fleet is capable of bringing warheads close enough without being destroyed. We know that the east coast sustained the first known strikes, and that a fleet of bombers was detected over the Bering Strait, so my assumption it that the Bombers were to deal with Alaska and western Canada and a sub fleet was sent to deal with the east coast while another dealt with the Gulf of Mexico, the remaining subs scattered around the west coast, which is likely within range of China's ICBM's that would do the main destruction. This explains why a city like Las Vegas, which ultimately isn't a strategically important city to the U.S. received over 70 warheads whearas Boston was only hit with 2, because China had the ability to bombard the west coast in excess, but in the east they only had a limited amount of bombs to send, most of which are likely headed to more strategically advantageous places such as military bases and industrial centers or the Capital. This can also give creedence to the fact that the East coast in general sustained less desertification and environmental damage, from the combination of distance from already desert regions in the U.S. and the general disproportionate number of warheads that hit there. (Edit, mixed up east and west)

[@ChrisVillagomez]

Honestly this is now my headcanon too

[@nichtmenschlich]

Some states have even never gotten nuked in the first place. Look at West Virginia for example. The only nuke that hit there (canonically) was by the player in order to stop the scourgebeast queen, which also didn't have a big range considered other nukes (like the one in the glowing sea). And the most bombs on the east coast were most likely aimed at Washington DC anyways

[@jasonanderson291]

I know this is an older video but... I agree with what you're saying there's one thing I'd like to reinforce in your statement. Boston had a hard target that was capable of retaliating against the Chinese. Most likely the sentinel site was the target and Boston was a bonus

[@PerishingPurplePulsar]

@@jasonanderson291 Thank you for the extra info, and no worries, never to late to help someone learn a little more!

[@vxicepickxv]

Megaton is based loosely around a real life event where a bomb fell off of a US bomber back in the 1960s.

[@franknb7827]

This is an absolute fabrication. Megaton and The Children of Atom is a reference to the group who worships an undetonated bomb in the film, Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

[@6thsavage]

You’re both right. I mean, honestly the Beneath the Planet of the Apes reference is the true literary inspiration of the Bomb worshipping cults seen throughout Fallout. However, most people are likely aware of the possibility of a nuke surviving a plane crash without detonation, via the real life 1961 Goldsboro crash. Personally, these scenarios are both reminiscent of my last relationship.

[@kingofspainMB1807]

@@6thsavage not where I expected that to go, but all 3 are accurate.

[@Slender_Man_186]

Well no, a bomb didn’t just fall off a bomber, a B-52 went down in America due to technical issues, carrying two nukes. Three out of the four triggers activated on one of them.

[@loganb7059]

@@GLARebel because it sheared a tree on the way down which took off the safeties. Just a kind of “dumb luck” thing.

[@yeti_ily]

i need this Denver wasteland more than anything now, just hope they dont make the roof tops play like the subway tunnels of fallout 3

[@In_The_Base]

Before Bethesda bought fallout Black Isle studio was making their own fallout 3 code named van buren which Took place east of the Hoover dam and would have had Denver and Boulder as locations with design documents being leaked to the public which can easily be found on the fallout wiki articles I suggest to check them out if you have time

[@yeti_ily]

@@In_The_Base forgot this comment was ever made but sounds interesting ill look into it

[@stefanstoyanov7460]

You left NY city. The lore mentions that the city was absolutely leveled to the ground.

[@guadalupearias7118]

Well only parts of it

[@noodlepotreal]

Only about 80 percent, which is still a looot, but the remaining 20 percent was described as a "radioactive dustbowl" (could be wrong, I remember somewhere in the fallout universe described as that)

[@_EllieLOL_]

@@noodlepotreal after 200 years I would expect the remaining 20% would’ve collapsed into the water

[@noodlepotreal]

@@_EllieLOL_ hell, after about 10 years it would've. But, weirder has happened. Pittsburgh still exists so...

[@Tayrwhit04]

Actually Brotherhood crossed by it not sure if it is New York City but they saw buildings so high they thought it was going to hit the prydwen. So tell me what other city it could be.

[@ProfessionalScofflaw]

Bakersfield is/was a major oil manufacturer for the country. Some of the largest oil fields are in Kern county and in the Bakersfield area. Can confirm the city is very sprawling but there are very few tall buildings on account of earthquakes. Two tallest buildings I know of are the Bank of America and the Petroleum Club. I can also confirm if you go to oildale you may run into a few ghouls.

[@scout_1239]

Great work as always! Its nice to see how in detail you can get with these, so keep it up!

[@Rad_King]

Thank you, things are only going to get better too!

[@michaelpreston2735]

As someone from Salt Lake, it's not surprising at all it was devastated. Salt Lake has many military targets, like hill afb, ogden depot, and various defense contractors. Also the dougway proving ground is in the state.

[@michaelpreston2735]

The bowl like geography, also likely would cause pressure waves to be concentrated

[@danielrogers7378]

The Van Buren version of Denver sounds like an interesting setting.

[@dragonbornexpress5650]

Unfortunately, since Van Buren was cancelled, it means the lore featured in that game is not canon.

[@kyleellis1825]

@@dragonbornexpress5650 I dunno, if it was going to go even farther down the F2 self parody route, Van Buren would have been worse than F3 (maybe even 4).

[@jaketheberge1970]

You should do a follow up video covering smaller areas. Some places like The Glow, The Divide, or Far Harbor could probably be graded in this way and are imo more damaged than some on this list. And some areas can be made even worse depending on player choices. Like how you can Nuke several places by accident or design (Megaton, Dry Wells, Long 15, The Courier's Mile, The institute). Or poising Project Purity. A list showing how much damage you can inflict and its effect would be cool.

[@Blox117]

if we covered smaller areas your mom would be #1 most destroyed location

[@shebvixen]

Funny thing about Reno, it's only about a half hour drive from the state capital. Even then though, Carson City is fairly small and probably wouldn't have been a target anyway.

[@kevblr15]

Just found you, been seeing you popup in my recommendations a lot lately and finally gave it a shot. Nice video, and I think you do a decent job capturing relatively clear audio with that mic. It's probably not the best but you're making do with it well enough that it's not awful to listen to, I'm impressed. A lot of smaller creators with similar mics never managed to make their earlier work sound this okay with their mics. Good job, sincerely!

[@Myjacob99]

Interesting thing i noticed is that Bakersfield seems to actually have a decent amount of skyscrapers in fallout, but in our world the tallest building their is only 12 Floors high.

[@kyleellis1825]

Falllout world solved Earthquakes in 2038 and everyone gets Skyscrappers.

[@unrulymarine6769]

You missed one thing. In a the Bakersfield portion you had it wasn’t the destructive power of the bombs that turned the vault 12 dwellers into ghouls but it was the experiment of vault 12 which was meant to have the vault door not seal correctly and allow radiation to flood the vault. Otherwise great video!

[@pepper-0ni-t1m]

If anything, I'm happy I have never seen a nuclear bomb irl. Seeing what those bastards can do to cities and the world we live on, just seeing one would put the fear of God in me. All in All, the Fallout universe is something scary as hell. A very good video btw RadKing, keep it up.

[@zionistjew2050]

You should look up Pelosi visiting Taiwan. Or Hunter Biden calling his dad a Baby Rapist... Washing DC is going to be Fallout 3

[@Robert_D_Mercer]

Im not, It would of been life changing being the ones making them. I wouldn't be talking to normies on KZbin comments if this was the case.

[@JackEverfree]

San Francisco could’ve been targeted by higher yield nuclear weapons then the fallout standard which would’ve actually blasted the radiation out into space instead of leaving it localized. That would also explain the unbelievably large craters near Los Angeles.

[@TehPiemaygor]

and it also probably detonated on the ground, or even penetrated the ground before detonating.

[@masterluxu1]

Dude I hope you get massive. Real Nthapple vibes. Love it 😊

[@Rad_King]

Really appreciate it man, I loved nthapple so I really take that as a compliment.

[@moc1to]

Bakersfield!! I always thought no one knew about my city until fallout

[@SydneySighs]

I live in Bakersfield, so when I found out it was in a post apocalyptic role-playing game, I knew I had to play it.

[@danbob2551]

Bakersfield gang here

[@Stuffandstuff974]

How does it compare?

[@SydneySighs]

@@Stuffandstuff974 Well in the summer going outside in Bakersfield makes it feel like you're in a nuclear wasteland, also Necropolis in Fallout is closer to Barstow on the map than the actual location of Bakersfield

[@loveshack6880]

@@SydneySighs yeah its more like the baker , barstow area

[@tikalthewhimsicott2736]

I don't know if this contributes to the topic but am I the only person that finds it odd that San Bernardino or any other city in the Inland Empire doesn't appear or isn't at least mentioned in Fallout? From what I can tell on Fallout 1's map fallout.fandom.com/wiki/New_California the area where the IE should be looks barren and devoid of life as if it never existed. I get San Bernardino or any where in the IE probably didn't appear due to a multitude of factors like the Writers not writing them into the plot, though it is kind of intriguing that there isn't anything left of the IE on the map. Addendum:Uppon further examination of Fallout 1's map, there appears to be like something that kind of looks like some sort of settlement (though due to the beigeyness they could have just be some rock formation) Southwest of Necropolis and Northeast of The Hub. It kind of aligns to where SB would be in real life. So maybe a remnant of San Bernardino did survive the war.

[@sski]

LOL at the Thumbs-Up at the end. Good research regarding locations. I love the big blast locations. The White House in F:3 was cool from the manhole cover location outside the gate all the way to the interiors. Just doom. Having walked past the WH hundreds of times, that area of play has this 'vibe' about it.

[@liquidsnail7305]

Denver would be so cool, reminds me of the Pitt but instead of troggs it dogs

[@Rad_King]

Indeed, I’d love to see Dog City in game!

[@JohnLongPig]

Damn watching these old videos makes me really appreciate your new ones. This one is tough, but you got so much better at this. Keep making them!

[@allanlane135]

Wait radking, didn't Captain Zao from the Yanga Sub say one his nuclear warheads fail to launch, could that have been the nuke that would have been used to destroy Boston 🤔

[@someidiotonline9005]

@@saintjames1995 so the nuke that would have destroyed boston is the one on the Yangatze sub

[@LaneCorbett]

I wonder if Fallout Germany has Imperialist and fascist factions

[@giovannicervantes2053]

@@LaneCorbett metro is that way 👉

[@Gwestytears]

@@LaneCorbett no it got nuked

[@princesstinklepanties2720]

@@LaneCorbett I mean I wouldnt doubt it since europe in fallout more or less collapsed even pre war so extremist factions wouldn't be impossible

[@ashton-ryantaylor5297]

So would the cities and towns in Fo76 be around Class 0-1? Most of those towns seem mostly intact. Charleston is the only exception but that is due to the Christmas Flood.

[@kill007willi4]

Not really grafton and other houses in the toxic valley look like the glowing sea sometimes even molten into the ground

[@peytonglover3064]

Technically, yeah. None of the damage, no matter how much there is, was caused by the apocalypse. Unless you count Welch, which was destroyed by underground nukes.

[@ashton-ryantaylor5297]

@@peytonglover3064 But I think what happened to Welch was pre-war, wasn't it? I thought it was a vein of ultracite that ruptured and the AMS Corp kicked out the residents so they could profit off the ore.

[@ashton-ryantaylor5297]

@@kill007willi4 I guess it depends on which town. Flatwoods, Sutton, and Helvetia are barely ruined at all. But other towns are messed up pretty badly

[@kill007willi4]

@@ashton-ryantaylor5297i was talking about towns in the toxic valley flatwoods sutton and helvetia ar all in the forest

[@valipunctro]

You know you got a fallout nerd when he starts referencing van Buren😋.I love it!great video btw.

[@thewizardavenger]

Bakersfield native here!! We don't have skyscrapers lol. But I'm happy my hometown was featured in a game. Love the video btw.

[@HarryIndeed]

As someone from SLC, I couldn’t believe that it was number one. Hearing the description of downtown turning to nothing but rubble and ash really got to me and made me feel uncomfortable. Crazy to think people rebuilt there with no buildings to build onto. I guess living like that prepared Joshua Graham for all his future punishment.

[@FrostyExlipse]

Still wonder what Syracuse is like, because he mentions what I think is the one in Utah

[@GoddessOfMisfortune]

I prefer your content when it's not a top 10 list, you're pretty good at it!

[@alejandroredpine]

Spinning girl

[@SophieSeal32]

Croup Manor seems like it got hit with five nukes on its own

[@joeyj6808]

This reminds me of way back when, when I was setting up a Morrow Project game, and drew in where all the nukes would hit on my map of Illinois, where my campaign was set. The list of possible targets was sobering. Folks don't realize how messed up everyone's mindsets were during the Cold War. We expected the Soviets or Ronnie Raygun to drop the Bomb at any moment.

[@SuperHandyman100]

There is also the Mesquite Mountains crater north of the Mojave Outpost. Along with an obvious crater that can be found out of bounds. Counting your 3 and the out of bounds crater. That brings the locations to 5 that we know of.

[@orbweaver823]

Just came across your channel, it’s everything I could have wanted out of a fallout channel and then some, keep up the amazing work, wishing you the best

[@TheCrystonian]

I'm kinda curious how some locations of Appalachia would have sat on this list

[@AVerySexuallyDeviantOrange]

I’d have liked to get even more precise stuff tbh, like the Glow and 87 and such, but I think WV deserves a nice fair shake sometime too

[@TheCrystonian]

@@AVerySexuallyDeviantOrange oh agreed

[@blueclaw6358]

@@AVerySexuallyDeviantOrange FINALLY A COMMENT ABOUT THE ONE MOST DEVASTATED LOCATION!

[@LRD-P1NEAPPL3]

In my opinion the glowing sea is what I believe the most damaged region, since it was ground zero of the nuclear bomb that dropped on Boston. Also not just the buildings were badly damaged, the landscape is weak.

[@crustysockmonster6295]

Crazy how much the RadKing's rizz has changed after 2 years haha

[@noname-et8xd]

Bro this video is so good, I like seeing fallout topics like this talked about

[@flashmusicarchive]

it's a good day when RadKing releases something.

[@Rad_King]

Hey hope it made your Wednesday a bit better.

[@OP-vx2qy]

Your mic kinda adds to the aesthetic. I like it

[@axavila6274]

wish we had more lore of other cities like NYC, Philly, New orleans, Huston, Detriot, and Altanta. i also question where did the nukes went off in Fallout 76

[@Rad_King]

Me too. I have hopes that future games and content would give us more details. I feel like they purposely keep some locations from having much lore so they can possibly put a game there without being hamstrung by previous lore.

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Oh, but we have . 8) With the mod,of course! There's the mod for New Vegas,where you can visit NYC,and it survived rather well,go look for it. Also, there's mod for Fallout 2,called F2:Texas,if I remember correctly.

[@bigchungusfootfungus1964]

Sorry im late but there are 2 ground zeros located in fallout 76, they are both explorable and surprisingly very close to each other. Unfortunately they are nothing like the ones we see in fallout 4 so don't expect much from them i guess. The location of both ground zeros are near the monorail elevator a little far behind Watoga city. Apparently there is a bigger nuke that detonated just off the map of fallout 76 but thats as far as I know in terms of actual ground zeros in fallout 76.

[@LInkinPark4life]

if there was an atlanta game I would be pretty horrified cause I live 60 miles southeast of atlanta

[@spaceangelmewtwo9074]

What about Hopeville/Ashton? Due to being nuked two to three times and being the site of Big MT's weather experiment, it is one of the most thoroughly destroyed and completely unlivable areas in the wasteland.

[@vadenummela9353]

Gonna say Glowing Sea and The Divide. Edit: Oh entire cities? Can you next do like top-10 gameplay locations with the most destruction? Or other smaller-scale places to serve as "whats an example of a class 0? Nuka World?"

[@Rad_King]

Sure thing mate. I’m always looking for ideas.

[@maybach5787]

"the glow" would be super high up there...since the place is "you are dead without rad-away". White house would be up there. uhhh...black mountain too. Salt lake City. also a tangent i just found out and im already typing this. since salt lake city is called that for a reason (large salt deposits) the fallout and radiation would be UNHEARD OF. because the Salt would Dissolve into the water or Silt and keep any ground water or rain water irradiated. and the ground would be so salty and radioactive farming would be impossible too.

[@chazzcoolidge2654]

I may be wrong,but isn't the majority of the Glowing Sea's radiation a result of a nuclear bomb striking close to a nearby nuclear reactor? IIRC there is a ruined nuclear power plant in the Glowing Sea with a nearby crater

[@maybach5787]

@@chazzcoolidge2654 i believe because of how the crater formed most of the fallout was "contained" within it, so it wasn't released all within the first 10 years, but it leaks out enough that the surrounding area will be contaminated for a long time.

[@LeoRamen98]

What about I don't know New York the fact that both fallout 3 I believe New Vegas and fallout 4 mentions about new York City that is just a literal crater

[@ValdVincent]

It's amazing to see how much better your setup got, since this wasn't too long ago.

[@eden20111]

According to lore, the Boston nuke was suppose to directly hit the the Sentinel Site which housed many ballistic missiles. If successful, the nuke combined with the missiles in the facility would completely leveled Boston.

[@elric5371]

That is not how nukes work buddy they are designed not to detonate even if exploded without Imput that is why abms destroy icbms without making them detonate else what is the point of having abms in the first place 😂

[@Erikaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Missiles, nuclear or otherwise don't detonate from just being in an explosion. They have a very specific trigger mechanism

[@anthonygarza947]

These videos are insanely interesting. Thank you for your work!

[@davidteachout1888]

You can actually discover vault 87's map marker if your determined enough and hot key an ass load of radaway

[@theamazingmeh1759]

I do it every time for the Riley Rangers!

[@davidteachout1888]

@@theamazingmeh1759 _ it's free real estate _

[@damianbrumfield3626]

I got so pissed when I found out the reward for getting to vault 87 was just a couple radaway in a suitcase, and I think a radsuit.

[@davidteachout1888]

@@damianbrumfield3626 The ungodly amount of super mutants and overlords isnt reward enough?

[@damianbrumfield3626]

@@davidteachout1888 no

[@faltuszszsz]

I was impressed by how much work you put into your scale. Got me hooked, keep up the good work. 👌

[@mrglayden1690]

Good video, but 1 minor critique, when talking about FO3 and FO4 you should have used footage from in those games, seems a little off talking and describing the destruction of FO3 while playing NV when you could have easily showed the destruction of walking through the DC downtown

[@h.r.hufnstuf4171]

I wouldnt like a fallout game in NY but I'd like to see a cannon picture of the carnage at least, always wondered about that place.

[@AdrianArmbruster]

20:00 -- if I recall correctly, the Shi's submarine ran aground near Chinatown, which was actually barbed-wired off and used as an internment camp. The fact that the neighborhood was fortified for use as a prison actually wound up preserving it, and the new San Francisco was rebuilt centering on there

[@ozythewise7411]

In the real world the hardest places hit would be places in the mid west and north central untied states. Air Force bases like Minot North Dakota. Basically any missile base in the great plains would get annihilated first before major metropolitan cities as a way to cripple the US’s 2nd strike response.

[@RafProductions3]

What about the north eastern USA?

[@ozythewise7411]

@@RafProductions3 what about it? If you only have let’s say 100 nukes to drop on America what would be the best way to cause as much damage as possible and protect yourself. There is no defense against a nuclear war. The best hope you have is to strike first and cripple the countries capabilities to retaliate. In the real world this isn’t possible thanks to nuclear subs that carry enough armament to wipe out the planet. So even if the USA got deleted without launching a single missile military sub commanders have authority to act as they see fit. Each Ohio class sub carries enough nuclear warheads to level any country. In the fallout universe I don’t think this 2nd strike capability existed. So the Chinese or whoever struck first would most definitely am to cripple the USAs ability to launch back. Maybe this is why there are so many in launched nukes in games. Lonesome road and the bunker in fallout 3 come to mind that haven’t been launched yet. Maybe the Chinese first strike worked and was able to knock out some key locations of US launch sites. There isn’t much tactical advantage with attacking cities outside of devastation and death. Out of the areas the North east probably got hit harder as prime targets are DC, Philly, Baltimore, New York and Boston are there. Not to many military bases besides Dover AFB in south Delaware. Most bases in the north east aren’t worth attacking.

[@RafProductions3]

@@ozythewise7411 but they probably had thousands of nuclear weapons. Also, IRL, weren’t the two biggest Soviet targets in a nuclear war he NYC and the pentagon? NYC to cripple the economic capital and the pentagon to destroy millitary brass? If you had 500 nukes and wanted to cause the most damage try firing nukes at the north east because high population and lotta important government leadership stuff there

[@axijah]

Only KZbinr that still post good fallout content

[@trashmammal9203]

*good

[@skinnernephi665]

*good

[@whitepanther3939]

I appreciate your work.

[@goofyahhdude365]

Found your channel not too long ago. You make great content. Please keep it up.

[@AlphaLegionTacticoolShitposts]

I still struggle to see how Nellis Air Base could have been nuked. There is hardly any real damage there, at least from my memory.

[@JohnDoe-ps2ke]

if you clip out of bounds to the nearby mountains you can see a big crater kinda like the one by black mountain

[@AlphaLegionTacticoolShitposts]

@@JohnDoe-ps2ke so there was no direct blast that hit the air base? That would make sense.

[@JohnDoe-ps2ke]

@@AlphaLegionTacticoolShitposts yeah i think that makes way more sense then it getting directly hit

[@AlphaLegionTacticoolShitposts]

@@JohnDoe-ps2ke aye true

[@princesstinklepanties2720]

@@AlphaLegionTacticoolShitposts most nukes don't really leave craters since you detonate then above ground, otherwise a lot of it's energy gets wasted creating a crater rather than causing destruction

[@komradblin2189]

oh yes. just what i need to know. loving your content man

[@ariabritton9669]

the reason it's called "the boneyard" is because the city got so BTFO that most of all that remains are the skeletal structures of the buildings. hence "boneyard".

[@guadalupearias7118]

Rebuilding in that area sounds pretty easy.

[@true5382]

@@guadalupearias7118 Not really. For the suburban homes and one- to two-story buildings, it would be pretty easy to rebuild those structures if you have the materials, and considering that suburban homes or other buildings were meant to be built in a short amount of time, it would not be too hard. For things such as skyscrapers (which I’m guessing there would be a fair amount, especially in the center of LA), that would be an entire challenge altogether. The machines necessary to rebuild the skyscrapers would be a fairly large number, and if we were just to rely on scaffolding alone rather than other machines (cranes, possibly robots, etc.), it would still come as an engineering problem getting all of that scaffolding built and making sure it doesn’t just fall over. And considering engineering in general, while the skill/career still does exist, it has noticeably took a dive unless you are in a faction like the NCR or the Followers of the Apocalypse, basically any faction that still has pre-war databases and textbooks. And considering that this is the post-apocalypse, many of the regular materials that pre-war society used on a regular basis, such as steel or glass, would be hard to get, either because the techniques that are used to make the materials is rudimentary or inefficient without the machines, meaning that the machines must be produced first to speed up the process, adding to the consumption of materials and fuel (both of which are not common anymore), or just simply that many of the materials would have to be imported from other pre-war states, adding to the challenge of getting materials due to a low amount of working vehicles, like big rigs.

[@guadalupearias7118]

@@true5382 I was mostly thinking about buildings that were tot that far off the ground like 3-5 story buildings. But it does seem like a total pain to rebuild anything that's higher and unstable

[@justalonepangolin8668]

@@true5382 ngl I’m sure it’s possible. To remind you the smallest nations in the wasteland still have relatively intact factories which according to what’s seen in the games they should have the ability to produce cranes even on a small scale. And even if it took 100 years we would eventually rebuild, it’s just what humans do.

[@QueAwkwardNoises]

@@justalonepangolin8668 LA being so prone to earthquakes only has a handful of skyscrapers, none of which come close to the top 15 tallest buildings in New York. Probably wouldn’t be detrimental to forgo repairing them haha

[@TheRaumente]

Could that massive crater be a sinkhole or some such caused by earthquakes or volcanos post nuclear war? Massive geologic destabilization from all the detonations perhaps?

[@elric5371]

It looks clearly like a nuclear crater they had prettty devastating weapons in that world.

[@joeywaters5559]

My definition of "destroyed" is less literal than yours, going more by how uninhabitable the location has become, so I consider Pittsburgh as the third most ruined. It has the most irradiated water seen in the series so far and just staying there for too long unprotected is guaranteed to mutate people. Other than that, our lists match up. As a side note, my personal headcanon is that the Cambridge Crater isn't from a nuke, but possibly some Institute experiment gone wrong. Great video, thank you so much for making it, goodbye.

[@ChrisVillagomez]

Even though it's fairly likely Detroit was nuked considering Las Vegas of all places received double-digit numbers of strikes, if Chicago is still habitable enough for the Brotherhood and Enclave to set up chapters then Detroit must be pretty viable still too. I really want a Detroit or modern Chicago Fallout game honestly, like imagine if they finally add drivable vehicles in a Detroit game since it's the Motor City? Or loads of mobster-based storylines alongside the Enclave remnants in the Chicago area and the Brotherhood led by Maxson in an FPS Fallout?

[@CrAzYcArNiE08]

Great video, thorough analysis!

[@Arcanua]

The damage seen in game is sadly NOT a good factor to tell damage. It's been 200 years and it COULD be rebuilt even from the scraps left after the blast. While I understand using that as a metric written lore is far better a source since again stuff can be rebuilt and New Vegas (the game not city) is a perfect show of that. Same goes for the folks that say "plants can't be there" It doesn't take over 200 years for vegetation to regrow, if anything seeing no plants in most areas is NOT accurate. I like how you used your own version of the actual scale used for this though. >:3 Denver has more info also in the tactics game, as for the whole overpasses being in tact...that honestly looks like part of a cutscene. The 2nd concept looks like leftovers. Saying Denver wasn't hurt more seems silly knowing there's more info on it and well Vault Zero is nearish the area and that vault did not survive.

[@Robert_D_Mercer]

Thats my biggest complaint man. 100's of years and even with all the rads, mother nature would consume the land. It's stupid to think not so

[@brieucpoulain7199]

Great vid as always! Thanks buddy, maybe a bit more visuals would help picturing your words!

[@sackettandres9457]

Well the questions you have about magaton can easily be answered by the blessings of atom

[@issuespunkrock]

Love your videos man, keep up the good work!

[@bruhmonkey7259]

The king is back

[@Rad_King]

Who’s happy to see me?

[@grubert3535]

This video is fantastic, great job!

[@lachlanbold8319]

There is a theory that the bomb in the Glowing Sea set off a chain detonation of nuclear powered generators and this caused the obscene damage.

[@ashtondoublet8334]

When he was talking about the craters of The Capital Wasteland I personally have found more craters further in the city. I don't know if these are canonical or not but they have a high or not average radiation emissions. So apart from the "White House Crater", the "Vault 87 Crater", the "Cratered Hamlet", and the "Fort Bannister Craters", I have found that there are possibly 3 more craters, but I'm not so sure about the last one, so near Takoma Industrial there is a crater hidden away where Isabella Proud is located, a crater to the very very north of Arlington Cemetery, and the last one a crater with either a partially intact missile or just a normal rocket located in Vernon Square. So from what I personally believe, The Capital Wasteland has either 6 or 7 nuclear impact craters: "The White House Crater", "The Takoma Industrial Crater", "The Arlington Crater", "The Cratered Hamlet", "The Vault 87 Crater", "The Fort Bannister Crater", and lastly possibly "The Vernon Square Crater".

[@Rrgr5]

Maybe, just maybe... The large crater were made by orbital bombardment, same with the glowing sea, considering how in FO there are some spacecraft and some space battles as it seems, maybe it did indeed was a orbital bombardment.

[@Rad_King]

Certainly possible. We know for a fact from New Vegas that there is an orbital space laser so it would only make sense that they would have orbital strike platforms.

[@Rrgr5]

@@Rad_King in the Broken Still DLC the Enclave used one, not quite powerful, but maybe they were during the war, when properly maintained, or perhaps they used all of their heavy payload during the war. Also there was that painting of a battle on the moon in the Nuka world DLC, the crashed space station and the enclave AI in FO76, for what it seems, the war wasn't as straight, quick and quiet as the overall picture shown...

[@delavanty]

The mic is way different from now a days good on u for updating your mic

[@guyman9655]

Best new fallout channel

[@Rad_King]

That’s a tall order but I’m really glad you’re liking it. Definitely stick around because I have plans.

[@guyman9655]

@@Rad_King don't worry my man I intend to be around for a long time

[@Grimpy970]

If you want to see what the personnel at nellis would have seen when a high altitude nuke detonated overhead, look up the Starfish Prime ground footage. The early dawn sky turns well-brighter than noon in less than a second. You can see personnel shocked by the light and heat, covering their eyes and retreating back into their underground shelters. That video has stuck with me over my years of studying nuclear war. Even if the device is 60 miles above you, you'll have a natural animalistic reaction to it, and you'll blindly flee from the truly awesome forces at play.

[@republicradio431]

In Megaton the plain crashed clouse to a hole or broke the roof of a cave

[@tccasanova]

Wonderful content as always, glad we're both making some fallout content.

[@Deathwish777]

you should break up the time bar into sections. i dont know if its easy to do but most other list videos have it. for convenience sake.

[@ginomctony6773]

nice work adding realistic nuclear warhead physics into this, its really crazy how most people dont understand that nuclear warheads would likely detonate in air and not on the ground.

[@bruhman3699]

Wouldn’t Detroit be targeted for the automotive industry or the fact that military vehicle parts are made there

[@thegooch2646]

The old mic caught me off guard😭💀

[@liquidsnail7305]

Great video! Could I request Fallouts most productive factions?

[@Rad_King]

I’ll put it on the list!

[@liquidsnail7305]

@@Rad_King cool!

[@VieriTheArtist]

One thing I kind of am torn on is the state of my home city. I live in Peoria, And I don’t feel like Fallout: Tactics really scratched the surface of how damaged it is (I understand why but hear me out). One name: Caterpillar. Caterpillar could go from manufacturing construction equipment to cranking out tanks and other vehicles used during war. Considering the timeframe where the fallout timeline splits from history, it could be a plausible idea for Caterpillar to still be extremely important to war efforts. Peoria being on the Illinois river is also important for shipping purposes. What I personally would envision is that Peoria is much like the glowing sea. Still heavily irradiated, but even after so many years the Pere Marquette would still be standing in some way. That’s just my personal take and my own hometown biases peeking out. Great video!

[@kyleellis1825]

Caterpillar would have been one of the main targets, just like how m hometown was Canada's 4th nuclear target during the cold war (because of one stupid smelter).

[@CartersRemasters]

Love the video, first one of yours I stumbled across! Going watch the upcoming ones. Btw, in my head cannon, the reason why the area of San Francisco that you play in fallout 2, isn’t totally destroyed and looks Chinese, is because the you are playing in the China town area, and that Chinese goverment decided not to nuke China Town, therefor you are playing in the last bit of San Francisco left, not that the Chinese submarines built it all back up

[@DuckAvenger]

Hell yeah a video that mentions my home town of baskersfield but they cleaned it up for fallout 1

[@familymanfunnymoments]

love this channel

[@Rad_King]

Thanks! Any content you’d like to see?

[@familymanfunnymoments]

@@Rad_King dope you responded, your videos have helped me sleep and eat food a bunch of times! i would love a video about notable things of fallout; hidden locations, cool lore, random encounters, easter eggs. The perfect video would be about locations with cool stories.