> If Russia or China decides to target our carriers, the response will have nuclear components. So if a nuclear superpower effortlessly takes out a US carrier

> If Russia or China decides to target our carriers, the response will have nuclear components. So if a nuclear superpower effortlessly takes out a US carrier using a few Kalibr missiles, we will nuke them and be utterly destroyed, thereby proving the carrier was not vulnerable? By that definition ("I'll nuke you if you touch it") a block of cheddar cheese is invulnerable.