The Great Waste

In General
The Great Plain Wasteland, often referred to as "The Great Waste" by locals, refers to the massive stretch of flatland and former prairie that spans most of Kansas. Before the war, it had provided the land from which vast amounts of America's domestic food products were grown and produced, but now the Great Waste is now a mostly empty and barren husk of the fertile land it had once been. Only three bombs were intended for the whole of Kansas, with one aimed at the capital of Topeka, another directed towards Kansas City, and the last dropped with the intent of irradiating the fertile farmlands of western Kansas. The aftermath left most of Kansas a great, empty wasteland completely incapable of supporting most forms of life -- the cruel irony of which caused some inhabitants to believe that the whole land had just become "one great, empty, completely useless waste", from which the nickname supposedly originates.