What followed USS Long Beach?

Which class followed USS Long Beach?

None followed her directly, leaving Long Beach as a one-ship class without a true successor.

USS Long Beach did not lead directly to a repeat class built on the same concept. Later nuclear cruisers used other hulls and arrangements, while the proposed strike cruiser never entered service. That leaves Long Beach as a singular combination of nuclear propulsion, missile armament, command space, and large-cruiser dimensions. The absence of a successor is what makes her hull such an open counterfactual for the Ticonderoga discussion.