[kurthr]

Every single piece of nuclear ordinance goes through that area. There are likely hundreds of near functional nuclear warheads under maintenance at any moment.

They're a larger nuclear power than China, England, France, or any country other than Russia and the US. What they don't have are delivery systems.

[RexM]

SpaceX launches out of Brownsville.

[hef19898]

Just because SpaceX has rockets that go to space doesn't mean those rockets are ICBMs.

[thsksbd]

It does though. Any rocket that can go into leo can fall within a mile without trouble.

And that's with 1950s guidance technology. Add modern controls and a SpaceX can crash into a site with 100 m no problem

[khuey]

Any rocket that can put a payload in orbit is an ICBM capable of launching at least that payload at another continent.

[hef19898]

If a continent is your target, sure...

[thereisnospork]

I mean spaceX can drop a booster on a 20m wide barge without much fuss...

[hef19898]

Land, not drop... And the boister is not coming in hot from a ballistic trajectory...

[dboreham]

The people who know how to do that are in California not Texas.

[saagarjha]

In one piece?

[arethuza]

Or the codes to make the Permissive Action Links (PAL) work.

[thsksbd]

If they have the physics package they don't need the codes. Those codes to deter a grunt or rogue commander. A place like Texas can easily make bombs out of the physics packages

[WatchDog]

I’d imagine that they have everything they need to make devices without a PAL.

I believe you need a code in order to disassemble a PAL protected device without it self destructing, presumably these disassembly codes are different from the arming codes.