The escalation problem with nuclear anti-ship weapons

Would an air-launched nuclear weapon be the simplest counter to a Stalingrad task force?

It could destroy or disable the force, but employing it would invite reciprocal nuclear use and could trigger a general exchange.

A viewer invokes the underwater Bikini Atoll test to propose a stand-off nuclear weapon that avoids the need to penetrate a large ship with conventional ordnance. An air-launched missile or nuclear depth-charge concept could also threaten several ships in the task force at once. Such weapons would likely be developed, yet technical feasibility would not make them usable in strategy. Once one side employs a nuclear weapon, reciprocal use and uncontrolled escalation become the central danger.