[I cannot think of a name]

Let’s see

No planes with guns (won’t need them, the next war will be fought with nuclear submarines).

Obsolete close air support aircraft (won’t need them, the next war will be fought with nuclear submarines).

Inadequate means to move cargo and supplies (won’t need them, the next war will be fought with nuclear submarines). See - Martin Seamaster cancelled by who?

If somebody could guarantee the next war fought would be nuclear, his ideas would have been fine. Unfortunately, all the wars fought since then have been non-nuclear and conventional.

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“If somebody could guarantee the next war fought would be nuclear, his ideas would have been fine”

There is a difference between choice of propulsion (nuclear vs conventional) and weaponry or force structure. Adm. Rickover was in charge of the Navy’s nuclear propulsion program, not the decisions about how many carriers and submarines (if any) were to be built, or whether they should be armed with nuclear weapons.