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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday July 21 2015, @08:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the nuke-it-from-orbit dept.

At last month's E3 conference in Los Angeles, Bethesda Softworks, a company normally focused on high-end titles for consoles and PCs, launched a smartphone game called Fallout Shelter, intended to drum up excitement for the next version of its popular Fallout franchise. In the game, players control their very own nuclear fallout shelter, known as a vault, which resembles a post-apocalyptic ant farm. The cheeky little game was an instant hit.
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The free app brought in $5.1 million in its first two weeks by selling players "lunchboxes" that speed along their progress in the game, according to data released Thursday by market-research firm SuperData. It was the most downloaded iPhone game in the U.S. for most of the days over the next three weeks and was one of the 10 top-grossing games in the country almost every day until last Monday. At some point during its brief run, it was the most downloaded iPhone game in 48 countries and the highest-grossing game in 11. But its early success seems to be ending, as it drops down the charts in terms of both downloads and revenue.

Who is indisputably the most important person in Vault 101: He who shelters us from the harshness of the atomic wasteland, and to whom we owe everything we have, including our lives?

  1. The Overseer
           
  2. The Overseer
           
  3. The Overseer
           
  4. The Overseer

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by gnuman on Tuesday July 21 2015, @05:55PM

    by gnuman (5013) on Tuesday July 21 2015, @05:55PM (#212020)

    You are quite naive. Go watch a movie, like The Day After

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yif-5cKg1Yo [youtube.com]

    or read this,
        http://www.nukefix.org/weapon.html [nukefix.org]

    The U.S. targeted approximately 40 nuclear weapons on the Ukrainian city of Kiev up until early 1991 [Forecast and Solution, p. 305]. The city is a 300 square miles in size, and in 1976 it was the third largest Soviet city, population 2,013,000. Such targeting, if evenly distributed, would have created the following levels of destruction over every square inch of Kiev: 100 Kt weapons = 6.7+ psi destruction; 250 Kt = 8+ psi destruction; and 500 Kt = 11+ psi destruction. Kiev would have been rubble if it were attacked with 40 weapons of any of these sizes. There would have been nothing left. The Russian, or for that matter any nuclear weapon nation's, target plan undoubtedly would promise a similar fate to at least some of its adversary's cities.

    The simultaneous bursts using encirclement, as suggested above, illustrates that "small" nuclear weapon nations have similar capabilities to destroy cities. It also illustrates the difficulties in arms control, for as the arsenals of superpowers are drawn down to 3,000 weapons, the capabilities for utterly destroying the adversary would not be diminished, because simultaneously detonated weapons will still make it possible to accomplish that end. So arms reductions usually have to reduce the number of nuclear weapons to very low levels in order to significantly reduce risk to the populace.

    Your books with plywood, they do nothing.

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