The USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is a supercarrier and the lead ship of its class. When the Navy laid the ship down and began its construction, the USS Nimitz was one of the largest warships in the world ...

Less than a week after the centerplates had been dropped into the keel of the 65,000-ton supercarrier United States, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson issued a curt order “discontinuing ...

Yet there is another side to the story — one that tempers panic with realism. In 2005, the U.S. Navy conducted SinkEx, a classified experiment to learn how a supercarrier fares under sustained attack.