Well, the point of the Fallout video games was that the world’s countries both getting bankrupted and running out of oil resulted in the nuclear war in the first place. If anything, sufficient collapse in nations that possess nuclear weapons means a loss of reason against their use. Plus, Fallout is pretty heavily based on the Mad Max trilogy, where nuclear war occurred and the world was left in the Stone Age.
Right. But the end result is an almost feral people in a preindustrial world scavenging to survive and trying to rebuild while roving gangs of liberals try enslaving, robbing and killing them. How the fallout world got to it’s state isn’t my point so much as what happened after the war.