Speaking with YouTuber and Fallout mega-fan TKs Mantis in a recent video, Cain drops the bombshell that it was actually China that launched the first nuke in response to the United States continuously experimenting with a bio-weapon called FEV, despite it being illegal.
Both China and the United States suffered catastrophic losses. The standard nuclear warhead used in the Great War was that of a strategic nuclear warhead ranging from 200-750 kilotons in explosive yield [Non-game 5] with high-yield variants found on Chinese submarines.