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Bethesda has reported some changes to the Japanese versions of Fallout 3. Players will no longer meet Mr. Burke in the ‘Power of the Atom’ quest. In the game, he wants to explode a nuclear bomb in a certain town. Without him, the player will not have the option to detonate the bomb. A weapon’s name has also been changed, and though it has not been officially announced which one, the most likely weapon is the Fat Man, which launches mini-nukes and shares its name with the bomb dropped on Nagasaki during the second world war. These changes were made because they were deemed “inappropriate,” and considering that Japan is the only country to have nuclear weapons used against them, it is understandable that this would be a touchy subject for many Japanese.

Source: Kotaku