How Plausable is "Fallout's" Technological POD?

Forgetting all the socio-political butterflies that occur in the game's TL, how plausible is the tech POD that starts it all?

From understanding its simply that most global technological innovation in the Post-WWII era is focused on developing nuclear energy as both a pervasive military-industrial tool (robots, weapons, power armor) as well as a consumer goods (fission cars), over OTL's micro-processor revolution.
 
As Freeway said, it isn't all too plausible. It is meant to be an imagining of a 50s sci-fi writer.
 
yeah,don't think too hard about the plausibility. they have androids,actually useful robots and even true AI but their computers are vintage crap.

also,the backstory makes little sense. the world basically collapsed because of lack of oil,but every car in the game runs on fusion...
 
The other massive improvement over OTL is computer balance. Witness the various 2-legged robots seen in Mechanist trailer, plus the Securitrons only needing one wheel for almost any terrain.

Let alone machine vision, human speech recognition, target discrimination, high energy physics (for lasers and plasma guns), better cooling systems (to handle the waste heat from the lasers, plasma guns, and gauss weaponry), rad-aways, and other wonderful toys.
 

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yeah,don't think too hard about the plausibility. they have androids,actually useful robots and even true AI but their computers are vintage crap.

also,the backstory makes little sense. the world basically collapsed because of lack of oil,but every car in the game runs on fusion...

Historically, the United States reached peak petroleum intensity just before the 1973 energy crisis. Not only was petroleum heavily used by automobiles, which almost all used V8 engines and frequently featured racing modifications (drag racing being a popular pastime in the 1960s), but it was also heavily used by the electricity industry. Over a million barrels per day of petroleum was burned to produce up to 20% of the country's electricity. People speak of the Bandwagon Market for nuclear energy in the 1960s, but no one knows that petroleum gained and lost so much capacity so quickly. All that petroleum generation would have been required to help efficiently meet peak demand, because you don't want to use a capital intensive and fuel price insensitive technology like nuclear to do that (it's about as bad as you can get, it has the opposite characteristics).

Fusion powered cars have been depicted as an alternative energy technology in the setting that were pushed as petroleum became expensive and rare.
 

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Also, renewable energy is depicted as still being niche in the 2070s. Geothermal power is used for some of the Vaults, and solar technology is only used by the military.
 
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