Presumably somewhere in Texas, this time they’ll have nukes. They shouldn’t 🤞 have a way to use them, but it’s curious what would happen with them if a vote to secede was successful.
Why would that be the case? Nuclear missile silos are concentrated in the north central United States specifically to give them more time to fire before detection and landfall of incoming ICBMs.
The vulnerability of Texas to a submarine launch is too great to consider it a base for launch in a mutually-assured destruction scenario. It also doesn’t have any reactors capable of producing isotopes needed for nuclear weapons.
I won’t claim to know about ability to produce the components of a weapon or ability to actually use one, but it appears that the only facility in the US that has the capacity to assemble or disassemble nuclear weapons is in Texas.
Nuclear armed hostile state in political upheaval within the boarders of the contiguous US, also with substantial oil reserves … That’s like the royal flush of getting invaded
Presumably somewhere in Texas, this time they’ll have nukes. They shouldn’t 🤞 have a way to use them, but it’s curious what would happen with them if a vote to secede was successful.
Why would that be the case? Nuclear missile silos are concentrated in the north central United States specifically to give them more time to fire before detection and landfall of incoming ICBMs.
The vulnerability of Texas to a submarine launch is too great to consider it a base for launch in a mutually-assured destruction scenario. It also doesn’t have any reactors capable of producing isotopes needed for nuclear weapons.
I won’t claim to know about ability to produce the components of a weapon or ability to actually use one, but it appears that the only facility in the US that has the capacity to assemble or disassemble nuclear weapons is in Texas.
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/texas-radiation-control/emergency-preparedness-radiation-control-program/pantex-nuclear-weapons-facility#:~:text=Pantex Plant is America’s only,an Army Ordinance Corps facility.
I just thought that the prospect of Texas trying to secede is a bit more complicated and scary, and thought I would offer a take to balance the jokes.
Yeah, that’s fucking scary.
That depends on how quickly and safely you want the disassembly to take place.
Nuclear armed hostile state in political upheaval within the boarders of the contiguous US, also with substantial oil reserves … That’s like the royal flush of getting invaded
Pantex plant near Amarillo is a MAJOR nuke servicing facility.