Maybe i haven't done all of my homework, but; If the enclave had a part with controlling the outcome of the vaults, what was with the slaughter of the vault 13 residents by the enclave as shown in the beginning movie of Fallout 2?

They were resisting, say the Enclave folks.

(I'm not kidding)

maybe the crashed plane was a chinese Nuke-Carrier, no? war has it's ways, maybe the chinese were intelligent enough to think life goes on after the war, so they started thinking: why not fool the remaining?
that plane was meant to crash, to fool...
by the time of FO3 There would be a low number of historical refrence, and the chinese planned that the remaining should have a bomb to see, a nuke which did not detonate, and as they scavanged the nuke, they would see the USAF symbol, and utterly think that their own country bombed itself, and made up a story. so they would go on a revolt against any American government (if existed) or lose the small escense of patriotism if they have...

the chinese planned on everything... muhuhahaha...!

You're right, waving is a sure sign of resistance

No generals were involved in the BoS. The highest ranking person from the US army involved was the founder, Captain Maxson.

Nope, EMP has no effect on vacuum tube based electronics. If you recall, the Fallout universe never made the discovery of microchips, thus most electronics in Fallout still use vacuum tubes (see the teaser trailer with the radio. The light bulb things are the vacuum tubes).

Quoting from the almighty wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse

So, EMP has no effect on the electronics of the Fallout universe. That's why radios and terminals still work.

Further, EMP's actual effects weren't really realised until the 1960s. Since the "Science!" of the Fallout universe is based on 1950 era assumptions (radiation creating mutants, no nuclear winter, etc.), EMP would have been irrelevant.

If Vault-Tec was selling to both sides it could shoot down the theory that some people have against having Fallout 4 in China, that being that there would be no Vaults there. If you're selling the weapons to both sides, then why not the vaults as well?

Maybe the pre-war Enclave wanted to test if vault 101 could survive such a close blast. Unfortunately something went wrong with their bomb. But when the Lone Wanderer blows up Megaton, he proves that the Vault was properly resistant against it. It should have at least been mentioned in the 'trouble on the homefront' quest.

lol. I can so imagine Butch eating an apple or something when the bomb went off.

I don't have BS, but couldn't the airstrip that Manya mentions be Adams Air Base?

EMP can bring down a plane even if its electronics are based on vaccum tubes or not.

A powerful pulse can induce electric potential in the kilovolt scale in metal constructions and under certain circumstances even magnetize metals which are normally amagnetic.
It can cause fire aboard or make vital magnetic switches fail.

The electromagnetic radiation is capable of stopping running gasoline engines and permanently damaging them by magnetizing their ignition system. The engines stop and you cant start them anymore. A plane can also be easily knocked out of the sky by a nuclear blast.

The bomb was definitely not dropped. The crater is much too big for that and that old lady in Megaton supports the idea that the whole plane with the bomb inside came down.
Quote : "Long ago, before the war there used to be machines flying in the sky" "People think the bomb made the crater but it didnt"