Summary of 5 Misconceptions About Fallout's Great War

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The video discusses five misconceptions about Fallout's Great War. These misconceptions include the idea that the project was the development of advanced fertilizer, that Vault 87 was completed in December 2071, that around 2076 the original Vault Experiment was scrapped, that Dr. Wayne Merrick led the evolutionary experimentation program, and that the Vault's mission was suspended due to a direct hit from a nuclear weapon. However, the video explains that these misconceptions are not necessarily true.

• 00:00:00 The five misconceptions about the Great War are that it was a surprise, that it was just a conflict between countries, that the only people who knew about it were the people working on the project, and that only one person knew about it in advance.
• 00:05:00 The five videos in the YouTube video document five people who knew about or anticipated a nuclear attack and what they did to prepare for it. The first video explains the situation with China and the lack of resolution, which leads the four other videos detailing people's preparations for the nuclear strike. One of the people who knew about the attack was Nuka-Cola founder and CEO John Caleb Bradburton. He received a payment for loaning out his employees and his company to the military for a project Cobalt. Brad Burton wanted protection so he offered to do the project if the military gave him the information on the military's leap X life extension prologue Nation program. The moment the leapex data arrived, he put the team to work on it.
• 00:10:00 The video discusses five misconceptions about the Great War in Fallout. The first misconception is that it was likely close to October 23rd, though we will never know for sure. The second misconception is that it took a while for Humanity to recover because many of the games take place centuries after the Great War and we play as a vault dweller, never really getting the chance to see what surface conditions were like immediately after the dropping of the bombs. The third misconception is that it lasted tested for years. The fourth misconception is that the Great War started and ended on October 23, 2077. The fifth misconception is that the switchboard Central Terminal in Lexington notes that USAF spotted possible Chinese aircrafts near the Bering Strait at 3 37 am, a little under six hours later at 9 13 am, the government's nuclear detection system reported four possible nuclear launches at 9 42 am, Pennsylvania and New York are confirmed to be hit by nuclear strikes, and at 9 47 am, the switchboard forward assumedly many other American facilities went offline.
• 00:15:00 The five main misconceptions about Fallout's Great War are that China, the United States, The Enclave, or Vault Tech may have been responsible, that nuclear weapons were used, that the aliens are behind everything, and that the protagonist was mind controlled into giving the aliens the launch codes.
• 00:20:00 The five misconceptions discussed in the video are as follows: 1) that Pam, an AI developed by a joint project between the defense intelligence agency and the military, started the Great War; 2) that Mexico started the Great War; 3) that Vault-Tec planned the Great War; 4) that voltec wanted World War III to happen; and 5) that voltec's primary goal wasn't to make money, but to perform social experiments in their vaults.
• 00:25:00 The video discusses five misconceptions about the Fallout's Great War. These misconceptions include the idea that the project was the development of advanced fertilizer, that Vault 87 was completed in December 2071, that around 2076 the original Vault Experiment was scrapped, that Dr. Wayne Merrick led the evolutionary experimentation program, and that the Vault's mission was suspended due to a direct hit from a nuclear weapon. However, the video explains that these misconceptions are not necessarily true. First, the project was not actually the development of advanced fertilizer. Second, Vault 87 was not completed in December 2071. Third, Dr. Wayne Merrick did not lead the evolutionary experimentation program. Fourth, the Vault's mission was not suspended due to a direct hit from a nuclear weapon. Fifth, the Vault did not plan the Great War.