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Honestly the more I think about it I think that the whole "vault tec launched the nukes capitalism bad thing" could've easily been done like this

>Government hate how much Vaults are costing them, demands for the whole project to be shut down
>See Vault Tec as a company trying to abuse the government and take as much money as they can from them to build worthless bunkers
>Government also learn (through incorrect intelligence, perhaps Chinese spies) that China doesn't actually have enough nuclear capacity to nuke America completely
>Vault Tec being greedy fucks (because capitalism bad) have a meeting and decide to trick China into launching a nuke at America since they don't have enough according to some insiders they have in the Government
>Maybe bring Mr House in here to build some kind of "fake nuke" device for China to think is real AND use his laser systems to shoot down the nukes that China will retaliate with like he did for Vegas
>By doing this they can scare the public into wanting vaults to protect them from this in the future, thus leading to the Government not withdrawing funding
>Fake nuke fired, China retaliates with their nukes but it's not just "a few" but rather a whole arsenal
>House can't take them all out and defends Vegas best he can (maybe even some bullshit about Vault Tec launching their plan early before the Platinum Chip arrives or something)

By doing it this way you can have a somewhat intelligent plan from Vault Tec, show "capitalism bad" in all its glory, have Mr House there in a somewhat lore friendly way, prove that Vault Tec are the reasons the nukes were launched AND you can even keep the "China launched first" lore intact.

It's not perfect since I'd rather they just never had this in the first place but it's better than whatever the fuck they came up with first.