Alternate Timelines

Scenarios about 'fallout'

The post-apocalyptic video game franchise created by Interplay Entertainment and later developed by Bethesda Softworks, set in an alternate timeline where nuclear war devastated the world after a divergence from our timeline following World War II. Fallout explores themes of retrofuturism, nuclear anxiety, and post-apocalyptic survival in a world shaped by 1950s American cultural aesthetics but with advanced technology, making it a popular reference point for nuclear-themed alternate histories.

What If Atmospheric Nuclear Testing Continued?

Exploring the alternate timeline where the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty was never signed, allowing atmospheric nuclear testing to continue throughout the Cold War and beyond, with profound environmental, geopolitical, and health consequences.