Weapon of Retaliation (Russian: «Оружие возмездия») is a short story by Victor Pelevin, published in 1990.
The stories receive a continuation or are given a backstory within the general artistic world of the characters.
The beginning does list the various projects that existed, then the story moves into the realm of dystopian fiction, how the Allies sought weapons of retaliation, how Stalin used blatant threats against the British and Americans, suspected deception, and so on.
Existing only in people's minds, the Weapon of Retaliation begins to fulfill its function of destroying or altering reality.
[8] For example, likening the weapons to the spear of Wotan implied the appearance of projectiles of incredible power, the metaphor "Siegfried's sword" prompted thoughts of a bomb, and the message that "the fire-eyed Valkyries of the Reich are about to unleash their holy madness on the aggressor" generated associations with rays or psychic gas.