Tldr:

Article says Vault tec saying they would drop bombs first means they did.

Which doesn’t make sense. Because the people in that meeting weren’t prepared to launch first.

The guy who created fallout has said since the first game that China launched first. Everything still points to China launching first despite Vault tec being willing to because they thought China wouldn’t.

Maybe China just did it out of the blue, maybe China heard Vault tec was doing it.

I don’t think we’re considering all the possibilities for this revelation. Like China may have dropped the first bombs on the US after vault Tek dropped a bomb on China