The U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-Class Nuclear Aircraft Carriers Have a Message for Russia and China

The U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-Class Nuclear Aircraft Carriers Have a Message for Russia and China

The USS Nimitz commissioned late, over budget, and under political fire in 1975. Fifty-one years later she's making her final voyage home — last foreign port call complete — as the lead ship of the most successful carrier class ever built, whose final hull, the George H.W. Bush, is its masterpiece.