[ Isolated from global affairs does indeed sound suspiciously like Vault living. So Arcade takes it at face value, as one tends to, in a dream.

That next question he can't quite manage to roll with as easily, though. ]

Uh, no. As in the nuclear bomb..? [ Which surely Viktor would know about, even living underground. That's why everyone went into the Vaults, after all. More or less, anyway. But nuclear power is what keeps them running, too. ] Though devastating is the right word for it, given most of the world is an uninhabitable radioactive wasteland, these days.