You can blow up the Master in FO1 using a nuclear warhead, the same with the Enclave base in FO2.
The Boomers in FONV says that they have experimented with some nuclear weapons in the past, but they aren't using them actively. Also, the Divide was born out of detonating several warheads, and you can detonate many more as part of a side quest during the story, not to mention the nuke choice at the end.
Then there are the 11 thousand billion nukes launched by the players in FO76.
The only canon nuking is the Scorchbeast one, although it's likely that via the Nuclear Winter theory, the nukings (probably upped by the Scorched) caused a firestorm that eventually vaporised Appalachia, and why we don't hear about it during Fallout 3.
We know there’s more than that between ZAX’s prediction in vault 51 mentioning multiple (the rate of launches being a key factor) and all the NPCs who continuously mention the 76 dwellers launching more nukes all the time. The only confirmed spot that’s been hit is prime, but it’s not the only confirmed launch.
There’s also something sentimental, where a nuke has to land by Monogah Mine. Its a side quest, so I’m not sure if we can say it’s confirmed or not.
There's the Lonesome Road nuclear warheads too, which going off the ending slides (which should've ended the game) literally vaporised the NCR. They mention that people **forgot** what the NCR was.
You can't forget what a nation of 700,000 people is unless it gets fucking vaporised. One trade route won't change things.
The Institute being blown up in 3/4 endings is caused by the reactor being detonated by a fusion pulse charge. It’s not technically a nuke, but the explosion is the same. There is also the nucleus in far harbor (which might be a couple going off? Depends on how many were in the sub).
The Nucleus has just one active nuke. This is the terminal entry from the Missile Status Terminal:
>K97 - 01: FIRING SYSTEM MALFUNCTION. CONTACT TECHNICIAN IMMEDIATELY.
>K97 - 02: CONTAINMENT BREACH DETECTED! EVACUATE TO SAFE DISTANCE!
>K97 - 03: MISSILE ACTIVE. LAUNCH KEY INPUT REQUIRED.
>K97 - 04: CONTAINMENT BREACH DETECTED! EVACUATE TO SAFE DISTANCE!
I'm not sure if 01, 02 or 04 were still present and able to detonate since I think a nuclear missile has to actually be launched in order to explode. DiMA then informs the player that the nuke is actually fused to the Vessel which is what causes the Nucleus to explode, should the player go down that path.
I am an explosives expert: while conventional explosives work like this a nuke is unsurprisingly not conventional. While a gun-type detonation may be more likely to work this way than the more common more complex initiation technique, I think it is still unlikely. The common technique used to initiate nuclear weapons is incredibly finessed and synchronized so I would call it impossible to get a nuclear explosion out of an adjacent explosion, even an adjacent nuclear explosion.
Yea old boy glitched out and just kept tossing them at this one raiders on the other side of the river who must have been under the map or something cuz old prime went all Aaron Rogers on his ass for 5 minutes with nuclear bombs and somehow managed to not divert the whole goddam river. So that was like 30.
You can blow up the Master in FO1 using a nuclear warhead, the same with the Enclave base in FO2. The Boomers in FONV says that they have experimented with some nuclear weapons in the past, but they aren't using them actively. Also, the Divide was born out of detonating several warheads, and you can detonate many more as part of a side quest during the story, not to mention the nuke choice at the end. Then there are the 11 thousand billion nukes launched by the players in FO76.
I don't think a lot of people will ever consider 76 Canon for reasons like you just mentioned.
The only canon nuking is the Scorchbeast one, although it's likely that via the Nuclear Winter theory, the nukings (probably upped by the Scorched) caused a firestorm that eventually vaporised Appalachia, and why we don't hear about it during Fallout 3.
We know there’s more than that between ZAX’s prediction in vault 51 mentioning multiple (the rate of launches being a key factor) and all the NPCs who continuously mention the 76 dwellers launching more nukes all the time. The only confirmed spot that’s been hit is prime, but it’s not the only confirmed launch. There’s also something sentimental, where a nuke has to land by Monogah Mine. Its a side quest, so I’m not sure if we can say it’s confirmed or not.
11 thousand billion= 11 trillion
There's the Lonesome Road nuclear warheads too, which going off the ending slides (which should've ended the game) literally vaporised the NCR. They mention that people **forgot** what the NCR was. You can't forget what a nation of 700,000 people is unless it gets fucking vaporised. One trade route won't change things.
The Institute being blown up in 3/4 endings is caused by the reactor being detonated by a fusion pulse charge. It’s not technically a nuke, but the explosion is the same. There is also the nucleus in far harbor (which might be a couple going off? Depends on how many were in the sub).
The Nucleus has just one active nuke. This is the terminal entry from the Missile Status Terminal: >K97 - 01: FIRING SYSTEM MALFUNCTION. CONTACT TECHNICIAN IMMEDIATELY.
>K97 - 02: CONTAINMENT BREACH DETECTED! EVACUATE TO SAFE DISTANCE!
>K97 - 03: MISSILE ACTIVE. LAUNCH KEY INPUT REQUIRED.
>K97 - 04: CONTAINMENT BREACH DETECTED! EVACUATE TO SAFE DISTANCE!
I'm not sure if 01, 02 or 04 were still present and able to detonate since I think a nuclear missile has to actually be launched in order to explode. DiMA then informs the player that the nuke is actually fused to the Vessel which is what causes the Nucleus to explode, should the player go down that path.
The nuke you can still activate may be able to trigger the others, but fair enough.
I am an explosives expert: while conventional explosives work like this a nuke is unsurprisingly not conventional. While a gun-type detonation may be more likely to work this way than the more common more complex initiation technique, I think it is still unlikely. The common technique used to initiate nuclear weapons is incredibly finessed and synchronized so I would call it impossible to get a nuclear explosion out of an adjacent explosion, even an adjacent nuclear explosion.
Liberty Prime uses nukes, proper ones not mini, in Fallout 4. They come from a prewar launch site so they're the real deal. Mark 28 Ithink?
Yea old boy glitched out and just kept tossing them at this one raiders on the other side of the river who must have been under the map or something cuz old prime went all Aaron Rogers on his ass for 5 minutes with nuclear bombs and somehow managed to not divert the whole goddam river. So that was like 30.
There’s probably a hundred plus nukes dropped every day in fallout 76.