...They could totally have gotten into horrific fights *after* the war... Horrific public fights even.

/me eggs you on

And I actually have trouble believing he'd've been allowed to go to the Continent even just being involved in Project Rebirth, but I guess you have to make a *few* allowances for comics logic... (Not enough to place him at Los Alamos, though. Just knowing that place *existed* was enough to make the security risk too high...)