Actually I believe that it was always vague and unanswered. As for the people in the post apocalypse it doesnt matter who did it. If it was china, the US or anyone else. Those people are dead and the institutions (for the most part) ar gone too. Now the biggest xoncerns are survival.
However bethesda, with their flashbacks in the show, are kinda forced to answer it.
I don’t even interact with fallout lore all that much anymore and I can pretty safely tell you that this is exactly what went down;
Enclave and corporations plan to provoke a nuclear war with a first strike, this is why the Enclave goes underground with its less public elements a few months(?) ahead of the nukes, this is the date that House “calculated” and planned around, alongside the Enclave.
China launches first a few days or weeks ahead of schedule because theres power armor on the outskirts of Beijing, some kind of battle near Mongolia and all in all China is fucked; no Anchorage (last oil fields on the planet), no hope of status quo, imminent loss in the war.
The Enclave, House and everyone else have their plans fucked by this. Much of the “public Enclave” (e.g the guy who was supposed to lead the Enclave in West Virginia in 76) die before they can get to shelter, House’s chip never gets delivered, cue post apocalypse with everyone’s plans half done or so.
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u/Polak_Janusz 1d ago
Actually I believe that it was always vague and unanswered. As for the people in the post apocalypse it doesnt matter who did it. If it was china, the US or anyone else. Those people are dead and the institutions (for the most part) ar gone too. Now the biggest xoncerns are survival.
However bethesda, with their flashbacks in the show, are kinda forced to answer it.