That's definitely what West Tek believes but redundancies in programs are a real-life military fact. Groups don't know about other research projects so if one is taken down then the research can continue.
Sorry, but taking top secret research from a facility that specialises in biological warfare and giving it to a company that specialises in building shelters is just ridiculous. And no, they don't share and distribute research like that. There are competitions (like the Joint Strike Fighter program or the Advanced Tactical fighter program), but base technology like stealth technology is usually done in one top secret facility in one program. Doubling costs, risk of leaks, and cut in half the people working on a single issue is just stupid.
It should be noted security concerns are kind of a redundant measure in a post-apocalypse environment, which is when these experiments are supposed to occur.
I don't quite understand your point here.
Harold the Mutant is the "raw FEV" result so SOMETHING happens when you dip someone in FEV period. He's an immortal deformed individual even without a different strain variant.
Yes, they knew
something happens, even from animal testing. Human testing started very shortly before the War, though. Vault construction started in 2054 and most were finished in 2063. I find it hard to believe that the government would go to Vault-Tec and say "Hey, here's fresh research in a field you have absolutely no experience in and that super top secret, please refit one of your vaults so you can do random human testing in case of nuclear war lel"
Well, according to Chris Avellone, it was Tim Cain. He thought theme vaults were awesome while Chris was more leary.
His vision of theme vaults (or rather, the vault experiments) was way different than what Bethesda made of them, though. They were subtle social experiments to test different factors that might be important for interstellar colonization, not "let's do human testing that makes Aperture Science seem reasonable because top kek".
Note that I wouldn't have too much problems with East Coast FEV if it was an actual research facility that had it. But Vault-Tec is just too unbelievable for me to suspend my disbelief that much.
.It would be more boring if everyone just stated the same opinion the whole time.
