Fallout - The History @ NMA

NMA has posted The History of Fallout, a self explanatory article that is based entirely on developer quotes to ensure accuracy:

The necessity for, and creation of, SPECIAL occurred near the planned release date, nearly half a year before the game was actually released. The setting of Fallout was decided on long before those events, being “a dark game, based on the horrors that 1950's science had predicted for a future apocalyptic world. So we balanced that with humour, by poking fun at those same predictions in a way that would amuse a modern player.”

Thanks, Tannhauser.