The question is did Claude really enable them - or just make it more convenient?

While it’s not your every-day coding exercise - I boldly suggest it’s probably not that hard to code a ballistic missile guidance system without AI.

The hardware would be the harder part!

Doubtless it gets advanced at the top end, but the fundamental physics involved isn’t national-secret level, so something that "works well enough, most of the time” would be within reach of most organised groups.

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Nation of psychopaths. Just control guns FFS.

Stop being a professional victim! You don’t have to use US tech. There are open source AI models and tools. You don’t need to pay to compete: in fact by doing so you’re contributing to the problem.

Don’t understand this. I dislike Apple in many ways, but MacOS is an objectively very solid operating system.