[andrewfong]

If it doesn't exist already, someone should write a story where the USG patents a ludicrously impossible perpetual motion machine or something to force China to burn cash, but then China actually claims to have created one and then both sides are scrambling to see if anyone actually invented something or if everyone's pulling each other's legs.

[themodelplumber]

Ooh, I love it.

Plus, maybe throw in that aspect from Polygon where the inventors of the devices are early-Internet pals who are conspiring toward the death of the military officers who previously sent the inventors' children to death overseas...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8rVp9rwaS0

[beAbU]

Too late, Leslie Nielsen would have been perfect as the lead character.

[brmgb]

I think you should read Pynchon if you haven’t already. The spirit is somewhat the same and Gravity Rainbow deals with a weapon development.