These people are telling me that all that territory doesn't matter because one city got fucked? Did they put all their eggs in one basket? INB4 they write it so the Shi took over the NCR territory, probably with the help of a girlboss. Even if the NCR lost the battle of Hoover Dam they still have so much more territory and resources to survive off of, it's not the biggest deal, just humiliating. Given that Bethesda (probably more Todd than anything) loves the idea of a wasteland more than a recovering world rebuilding itself from the apocalypse, they probably retconned any development Shady Sands, fuck it the whole NCR, have had over the 88 years since the NCR was founded and when the battle of Hoover Dam-oh I'm sorry, the nuking of Shady Sands. Even if Shady Sands was actually nuked later, say 2282 after NV took place, its stated the NCR was in the decline (that's where the blackboard is mentioned) which uh...yeah lmao nigger no. And the reason it was nuked is even fucking more stupid, two smucks wanted to hide the real reason the Vaults were made, or rather the "Societal Preservation Program." Why the fuck would that matter now? Even dumber, it was to kill one person, ONE FUCKING PERSON. Do they not have the ability to hire assassins? What would happen if the NCR knew about the Vaults? Why would they care at this point? Why waste a fucking nuke? It's all so fucking retarded.