Fallout TV Series Doesn't Confirm Who Dropped The Bombs, Says Showrunners

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Spoilers for the Fallout TV series.

In the Fallout show, we see a meeting between some of the biggest corporations in America and Vault-Tec as they plan to initiate the apocalypse so they can rule the country with a true monopoly once their competitors have been literally wiped out.

But not all fans are convinced that this is what happened. Many theorised that while Vault-Tec intended to start the apocalypse, someone else beat them to it, explaining why House - who appears at the meeting - was caught off guard and missed the delivery of the Platinum Chip.

Showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet plan to unpack what happens after the meeting, so maybe we'll find out the truth soon enough.

"Well, we have more story to tell," Wagner said in an interview with GQ Magazine. "I would just not treat anything as definitive because, again, everything that we see is subjective. That scene occurred. But what occurs between then and the actual bombs falling... there's more exciting stuff planned between that moment and the last moment, I guess I should say."

There's more exciting stuff planned between that moment and the last moment.

So, perhaps Vault-Tec prepared to fire the first warhead and lay the foundation for its wasteland monopoly, only for someone else to catch them completely off guard mere hours before. It would tie up the House plot hole, explain why Cooper's daughter was nearly caught in the crossfire, fold a popular fan theory into the story, and perfectly fit Fallout's ironic tone.

Either way, Wagner and Robertson-Dworet aren't done with the flashbacks, so we might get more concrete answers next season about who dropped the bombs. But for now, it's not 100 percent certain that Vault-Tec was the instigator.

Fallout is a franchise built around a series of RPGs set in a post-nuclear world, in which great vaults have been built to shelter parts of humankind. There are six main games, various spin-offs, tabletop games, and a TV series from