Why are people afraid to call their ships “cruisers” and “battle cruisers?”
Russia is refitting its four Kirov-class Missile Cruisers (or whatever post-Soviet class name they now carry - I forget). These ships are most likely smaller, so the destroyer classification is logical enough. First nuke-powered tin cans that I've heard of, though.
USS Bainbridge, DLGN-25, later CGN-25. So the confusion reigned in the USN too about what to designate nuclear surface combatants.
USS Bainbridge CGN-25 started out as a DLGN.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bainbridge_(CGN-25)
CGN made more sense given its displacement and dimensions.
Got a link on the refitting of the Kirovs? I though several were decommissioned.