Aircraft carrier (1976): Nuclear norm (US)

[110] [more-aircraft-carrier-10] Aircraft carrier is the record of 1976 under “Nuclear norm (US).” The figure to read with it is 91. Do not arrange states in a league. Fix who moved what, and where, to that year. Do not add a later war into the same total. After 1991: China, India, UK return -- dated openly. Named as historical geography of Aircraft carrier, not as a targeting list.

English memory is Midway films and a city-sized US deck. Korean memory is Inchon's carrier air (1950) and later alliance decks in nearby seas -- plus a domestic debate about aviation ships that this page will not umpire as a live programme. TechShift is high; intensity is that of a type, not a war.

A deck that ate the battleship's prestige The carrier is an industrial-political system -- air wing, escorts, and a state's decision to be present at sea -- told as history. Experiments, the Washington Treaty's carrier clauses, and the 1940-41 shocks (Taranto, Pearl Harbor, Bismarck's air wound).

Battleship admirals lost an argument the wrecks then settled. Midway, the Philippine Sea, kamikaze as a late reply. Escort carriers as a second type for convoys and landings (Inchon's air came from decks). Nuclear propulsion (Enterprise, 1961), the US supercarrier as alliance theatre, the RN's political retreat, the Soviet Kiev/Kuznetsov path.

Say Aircraft carrier with 1976, “Nuclear norm (US),” and 91. The figure is not a national score.1976

Figures to keep

Year of the action: 1976
Figure in the record: 91
Action: Aircraft carrier
Line of the front: Nuclear norm (US)

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