Fall of Shady Sands

The Fall of Shady Sands was an event that started in 2277 and ended some time in the 2280s shortly after the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, when the city was completely destroyed.
Shady Sands was destroyed by a nuclear bomb on the orders of Hank MacLean, a pre-War Vault-Tec employee and overseer of Vault 33, who wanted to erase all factionalism and ensure the world would be remade according to his and Vault-Tec's ideals. This would also hide the truth of the surface world from Vault 32 and 33's inhabitants (after Vault 33's water was discovered to have been partially siphoned).
A remnant force of the New California Republic eventually took shelter in Griffith Observatory. Other survivors found refuge in nearby settlements, Vaults, and even the Brotherhood of Steel.
==Notes==
The Fall of Shady Sands occurred in the same year Lucy MacLean claims a plague hit Vault 33 and killed her mother Rose MacLean. There is a chance Hank MacLean used the plague to cover up Rose's disappearance from Vault 33 if she did escape this year, then immediately pursued Rose to retrieve his children.
==Behind the scenes==
Many viewers assumed that the "Fall of Shady Sands" being dated to 2277 on a blackboard in Vault 4 in episode "The Trap", followed by an image of a nuclear explosion, meant that the city was completely destroyed 4 years before the events of Fallout: New Vegas, where it is mentioned as still existing. Todd Howard later clarified in an interview that the nuclear destruction of Shady Sands happened shortly after New Vegas.Fallout Official Timeline Confirmed: How the Show Fits In With the Games at IGN 
The nature of events that occurred in 2277 and preceded the nuclear destruction remains unclear.
The idea of Shady Sands being destroyed by a nuclear bomb was something first advocated for in the early 2000s by Chris Avellone during the development of Van Buren, Black Isle Studios' canceled Fallout 3.Chris Avellone on Reddit
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