Tim Cain is a storied man. Fallout co-creator, Arcanum maker, owner and proprietor of the best channel on YouTube, Cain’s accolades stretch beyond counting, and there are more game design secrets locked up in his head than we’ll probably ever know. But hey, we can know some of them, and thanks to Cain’s recent appearance on gaming documentary channel TKs-Mantis (via GamesRadar), we know one about Fallout specifically: Who was it that dropped the first bomb?
Chatting off the cuff about the moral ambiguity of Fallout’s foundational conflict, Cain happened to mention that “The reason [the United States] got nuked is bio-weapons were illegal, and somehow China found out we were doing FEV.” The FEV, if you’re not up on your Fallout lore, is the Forced Evolutionary Virus, a pre-war supe…