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If a full-on world war happens, carriers could be sunk by ballistic or hypersonic missiles. But they probably would survive, because the world war would start with an exchange of ICBMs to destroy cities. So maybe the people in the shelters wouldn't bother to press the buttons to kill the carriers? If the carriers were moving they probably wouldn't even try...better to expend the missiles on land targets with known locations. So maybe carriers would be safe places to be? The crews could take on the responsibility of repopulating the earth. Just as well that there are now women serving on them.
But if MAD holds good, there will no nuclear war, and carriers will continue to be a great way to project power and to attack countries which don't have nukes. They've done this very well in the past. US carriers have been killing people all around the world for many years, and nobody's sunk one yet. The attack on the Cole gave pause for thought. It came close to sinking her. But a carrier, being so much bigger, with so many more watertight compartments, would be many times harder to sink than the Cole.