Carriers are dead meat when it comes to defending against nuclear missiles. Heck 50 years ago they were dead meat against nukes and nowadays, those missiles will be coming in at supersonic speed with stealth war paint, maybe sea level too.
Nah when it comes to nuclear war the carriers will fire first and then watch hundreds of nukes swarm them to death. But still I like having them for the non-nuke punks out there.
You didn’t understand Post #59. ICBMs are now intercepted in Space by ship-borne SM-3 interceptors...operational since at least 2004.
Only a question of time before the “punks” hang a primitive A-bomb under a mass produced drone and aim it at the center of a battle group.
Probably a question of even less time before they launch one off the deck of a commandeered container ship and aim it at the White House.