[RobbyS]

BTAIM, an BB is the only ship that could survive a near miss by a nuclear missle. They don't (can't) make them like that anymore.

[RayChuang88]

I think one of the big concerns was that when we reactivated our big battleships in the 1980's they would have been among the first targets for a Soviet nuclear strike at sea. And the Soviets had some nasty and big anti-ship missiles armed with a 300 kT nuclear warhead; they were designed specifically against carrier groups but they would have also targeted our battleships. Even a quarter-mile near miss with a 300 kT warhead would have killed everyone on the battleship.