Fallout : War and the environment

Fallout 4 cover box

I can't wait for the release of Fallout 4 next month (although exams are clearly in the way of me actually playing the game). I just thought that fallout would be an interesting game by which we can explore the impact that war has on the environment, which i believe tends to be one of the most overlooked impacts of war.

Of course in the fallout series, much of the world's population and environments were devastated from nuclear war (although such a war is unlikely at this point we should definitely hope that it doesn't happen). Although many of things portrayed within the video games are probably fictional (like the presence of super mutants and other oddities), it gives us a good visualisation of how inhabitable earth would be if we were to destroy our environment from our wars. We, as a species, now have the ability to irreversible change our environments in ways unimaginable from our weapons of mass destruction.