Billions of dollars and thousands of casualties were spent in vain, despite taxes and various wartime revenues ensuring the federal government was able to fund a standing army the likes of which the United States had never seen before. Despite a decade of war, there was no end in sight. By October, the situation transitioned from a rout into a stalemate. However, as American soldiers pushed deeper into the mainland, Chinese resistance increased.

The campaign in mainland China, which began in 2074 and included deployments in Shantou, was reinvigorated by gaining ground in Alaska and the deployment of T-51 units. The liberation of Anchorage spearheaded by winterized T-51 power armor units under the command of General Constantine Chase marked the end of the Battle of Anchorage, after a decade of war. By 2077, a combination of attrition, loss of supply routes, and offensives conducted by the United States across the front left Chinese units in Alaska stranded and cut off from reinforcements. The nuclear holocaust was a direct result of the decade-long conflict that left both the United States and China exhausted. The details are trivial and pointless, the reasons, as always, purely human ones.

Too many humans, not enough space or resources to go around.

“ The end of the world occurred pretty much as we had predicted.

Facts about the nuclear fallout shelter