Within its weapon stores, an aircraft carrier holds all kinds of ordnance, but the question of whether or not a carrier is ...

The Midway-class aircraft carriers, introduced post-World War II, became essential to the U.S. Navy during the Cold War.

China has constructed a prototype nuclear reactor designed for large surface warships, hinting at ambitions to build the ...

The Navy had never built an aircraft carrier that had a nuclear reactor ... Further, the United States was going to be outfitted with nuclear weapons for its own arsenal, not just the arsenals ...

SEOUL--North Korea lashed out Friday at the arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in South Korea, calling it a provocation and again raising the specter of using nuclear weapons to ...