According to whose intelligence? Hard for the gutted US intelligence to tell; and they’re too busy spying on US citizens and ignoring our enemies to know. The NIE that the libs got all heated up over concerning Iran’s status insofar as nuclear weapons was way off.
Please note that the Russians and Chinese have NO nuclear carriers
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What are you saying here? Are you saying that the current Chinese and/or Russian aircraft carriers are really nuclear and we don’t know it?
If this is what you are claiming than please note that the current Russian Carrier Kuznetsov was launched in 1985 and construction of the Varyag (now the Chinese Carrier Liaonig) began in 1985 as well. Ronald Reagan was President and I don’t believe that our intelligence had been “gutted” as you claim at that time. Are you saying that our intelligence services missed the fact that these carriers were secretly nuclear since 1985?
Or are you saying that either the Chinese or Russians secretly built Nuclear Aircraft Carriers and we did not know about it? An aircraft carrier is one of the largest and most complex weapon system ever built. These are not like the nuclear laboratories in Iran which can be more easily hidden in bunkers and moved. They require a large shipyard and thousands of workers which is pretty easy to see by satellite. By comparison we had photos of the so called “Chinese stealth fighter” pretty soon after it flew and that is just one little plane.
Also, an aircraft carrier is a weapon system. That means that you have to test the ship, its systems and all of the planes that are deployed to the carrier. Building the aircraft carrier and testing all of the systems requires many years. In fact the Kuznetsova required a full decade to become operational and it is not even nuclear. Are you saying that the intelligence services of the US and all of our allies missed the construction and testing of a “secret” nuclear carrier for ten years?