User blog comment:Jeremiah Garland/Jeremiah's Depressing Predictions on the Future/@comment-7712254-20130614053923/@comment-3524871-20130614214447

Also, the radiation isn't mostly gone, there's still a ton of irradiated areas, but the affects of the war are still being felt, even 200 years in the future. Super mutants, ghouls, irradiated creatures, they're all still around and roaming the Wastes.