Would a nuclear war really lead to the sort of desolate, post-apocalyptic wasteland found in the Fallout series? GameTrailers tapped renowned physicist Dr. Michio Kaku to find out.
My personal favorite misconception about life after a nuclear war is the idea that the world will be overrun with radioactive mutants. As Dr. Kaku points out, it doesn't really work this way. Radioactivity has a much better chance of killing you dead than turning you into a young man with the proportionate strength of a spider.
Mutants are entertaining though, which is why they show up in games like Fallout or comics like Spider-Man. Peter Parker wouldn't be any fun at all if he were bitten by a radioactive spider, lost all of his hair, and then died.