Saving cancelled Cold War ship classes

If you could save one cancelled Cold War or later ship class, which would you save and why?

The discussion favors CVA-01 for its likely Falklands deterrent effect, then considers Type 82, a fifth Resolution-class SSBN, and U.S. nuclear strike cruisers.

CVA-01 is favored in the counterfactual because its proposed Phantoms, Buccaneers, and airborne early warning might have deterred Argentina from attempting the Falklands invasion. Retaining the carriers could also have preserved Type 82 escorts and avoided later gaps in British carrier aviation. A separate choice is the fifth Resolution-class SSBN, on the argument that beginning with five boats could have established a more resilient force-size expectation. Another participant chooses the most developed CSGN nuclear strike cruiser and imagines building it in numbers comparable to the SSBN fleet. That choice rests on a heavily armed cruiser group sustaining more than 30 knots on distant deployments, with hypothetical construction continuing into the early 2000s. Dan returns to CVA-01 because of its consequences for the escort fleet and continuity of carrier power.