In 1945, the Third Reich tries to summon a god under their command, only to have it backfire catastrophically and then be erased from history by the Allies.
In 1953, the Soviet Union chains three children together into a psionic communist gestalt, only for it to assimilate its creators into a transcendent extra-universal hivemind.
In 1998, Prometheus Laboratories builds a sapient war machine with enough firepower to level a continent, only to be wiped from the face of the earth in the ensuing struggle for its control.
Unfortunately, their failures give everyone else the wrong idea.
The year is 2017, and the world has once more become embroiled in a secret arms race of apocalyptic proportions. Nobody is quite sure why - all anybody is certain of is that they have all built
GUNS POINTED AT THE HEAD OF GOD
STEP ONE: LOAD THE CHAMBER
1. SCP-2664 - Redline
2. T Minus
3. T Plus
4. Deus Vulture
5. Conqueror WormINTERMISSION: The Dedekind Infinite Demographic
STEP TWO: COCK THE HAMMER