Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Nuclear-Powered Warships

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  1. Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:09:30Nuclear strike cruisers as carrier escortsNotable Point
  2. Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live
    2:20:38SSV-33 Ural, a Kirov-sized spy ship without a berthChapter
  3. Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live
    3:35:48What followed USS Long Beach?Q&A
  4. Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:44:44What one American BBG(X) would do for AustraliaQ&A
  5. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    16:14Small modular reactors for shipsQ&A
  6. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:38:30More Type 055s or a Chinese nuclear surface combatant?Q&A
  7. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:51:48A Russian nuclear-destroyer counterfactualQ&A
  8. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:53:46How Japan could stretch the destroyer label beyond IzumoQ&A
  9. Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:06:51Building a modern nuclear cruiser from destroyer systemsQ&A
  10. Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:13:01A fully nuclear Royal Navy after the 1950sQ&A
  11. Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:14:54What nuclear propulsion offers a carrier escortQ&A
  12. Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:07:28A modern nuclear cruiser as an energy-weapon platformQ&A
  13. Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:11:48How a small modular reactor could power a warshipQ&A
  14. Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:27:13How reactor disposal and industrial scale shape nuclear warshipsNotable Point
  15. Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:06:32Why a 200,000-ton warship outruns useful scaleQ&A
  16. Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:57:03When nuclear power makes sense for surface combatantsQ&A
  17. Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:59:32How small could a nuclear-powered surface vessel be?Q&A
  18. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    3:10:31Why Russia is unlikely to buy Chinese destroyersQ&A
  19. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    8:24:51A proposed nuclear strike cruiser as a Ticonderoga replacementQ&A
  20. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II
    3:33:29An Alaska-sized nuclear missile cruiser instead of Long BeachQ&A
  21. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II
    4:02:32Preparing the Soviet Navy for a future breakupQ&A
  22. Nuclear Powered Warships: are they worth the cost?
    0:09When nuclear power suits a surface warshipQ&A
  23. Nuclear Powered Warships: are they worth the cost?
    17:48Training, disposal, and battle-damage costsNotable Point
  24. Nuclear Powered Warships: are they worth the cost?
    24:25Reactor endurance does not solve fleet logisticsChapter
  25. Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:30:57Why the U.S. abandoned a nuclear strike cruiserQ&A
  26. So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live
    1:11:14Gas turbines, electric power, and four-way redundancyChapter
  27. World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4
    5:06:12Classifying a proposed Anglo-American 8-inch command cruiserQ&A
  28. Ramblings Emergency Broadcast
    1:03:23Could a cruiser hull make an escort carrier?Q&A
  29. Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...
    3:25:20Three shafts fit PA-NG's place below a US supercarrierQ&A
  30. Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...
    4:00:57A Tillman-sized missile cruiser grows into a vast arsenal shipQ&A
  31. Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!
    9:10A carrier as an enabler, command ship, and national symbolNotable Point
  32. Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!
    20:35Why technical expertise matters when judging espionage claimsNotable Point
  33. Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!
    29:31Reactor enrichment and the decision to refuel earlyNotable Point
  34. Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!
    33:11Why food still limits a nuclear carrier's enduranceNotable Point
  35. Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!
    37:00Nuclear-carrier prestige versus usable national powerNotable Point
  36. Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!
    56:47Carrier availability and the choice of a successor forceNotable Point
  37. Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!
    1:04:01PA-NG's larger flight deck and disputed speed claimNotable Point
  38. Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.
    34:41Would directed-energy weapons justify a British nuclear cruiser?Q&A
  39. Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.
    1:27:51Commissioned life versus active life for the Kirov classQ&A
  40. Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.
    2:28:07Why nuclear cruisers did not grow from the Alaska classQ&A
  41. Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.
    2:35:21Why submarine and surface-ship reactors differQ&A
  42. Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.
    3:04:53Why Long Beach was not battleship-sizedNotable Point
  43. Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.
    3:25:08How many nuclear escorts does a nuclear carrier need?Q&A
  44. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    3:34:34An Alaska-sized nuclear Long BeachQ&A
  45. Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast
    22:49Triton's twin-reactor power and speed ambiguityChapter
  46. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    4:10:49Maintenance in a larger hypothetical Russian fleetQ&A
  47. Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases
    3:51:36Nuclear strike cruisers could preserve a second specialist yardQ&A
  48. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 8
    1:22:15Nuclear carriers need rare repair infrastructureQ&A
  49. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 8
    1:29:14Enterprise and the value of nuclear-powered speedNotable Point
  50. Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian
    13:33Nuclear endurance can restrict naval diplomacyNotable Point
  51. Belknap Class & Truxton: Comment Response
    4:02Naval reactors as a civilian nuclear workforce pipelineNotable Point
  52. Belknap Class & Truxton: Comment Response
    4:59Nuclear escorts for carrier surge speedNotable Point
  53. Belknap Class & Truxton: Comment Response
    16:46Independent presence missions for nuclear cruisersNotable Point
  54. Belknap Class & Truxton: Comment Response
    19:27Nuclear escorts and rapid concentrationQ&A
  55. Belknap Class & Truxton: Comment Response
    27:11Conventional machinery limited nuclear warship powerNotable Point
  56. Belknap Class & Truxton: Comment Response
    28:44Nuclear escorts compete with the need for hull numbersNotable Point
  57. Belknap Class & Truxton: Comment Response
    32:04A steady nuclear-escort production policyQ&A
  58. USS Long Beach: Comment Response
    7:15A British equivalent to a nuclear missile cruiserQ&A
  59. USS Long Beach: Comment Response
    8:10Why part of Long Beach remained at Puget SoundQ&A
  60. USS Long Beach: Comment Response
    15:37From an enlarged Long Beach to a strike-cruiser classNotable Point
  61. USS Long Beach: Comment Response
    18:23Why Aegis forced a clean-sheet strike cruiserNotable Point
  62. USS Long Beach: Comment Response
    24:18How strike-cruiser numbers could answer KirovNotable Point
  63. USS Long Beach: Comment Response
    35:11Nuclear power and future naval weaponsQ&A
  64. USS Long Beach: Comment Response
    42:56Why the nuclear cruisers left serviceQ&A
  65. USS Long Beach(CGN-9): The USN's Last Cruiser...
    12:50Nuclear endurance measured in years, not nautical milesNotable Point
  66. USS Long Beach(CGN-9): The USN's Last Cruiser...
    42:44The case for one nuclear escort per nuclear carrierNotable Point
  67. USS Long Beach(CGN-9): The USN's Last Cruiser...
    49:11Enterprise shows the service life Long Beach did not receiveNotable Point
  68. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 2
    2:21:27Prospects for European nuclear-powered surface warshipsQ&A
  69. Kirov Class Cruisers; the Alaska Class of the Late Cold War? (Soviet Navy)
    3:11A nuclear-powered instrument of naval diplomacyNotable Point
  70. Kirov Class Cruisers; the Alaska Class of the Late Cold War? (Soviet Navy)
    14:42Project 1144 size and combined propulsionChapter
  71. Kirov Class Cruisers; the Alaska Class of the Late Cold War? (Soviet Navy)
    21:17What Russia sought in a Kirov successorNotable Point
  72. Kirov Class Cruisers; the Alaska Class of the Late Cold War? (Soviet Navy)
    47:01Designing a Western counterpart to KirovNotable Point
  73. Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions
    2:06:15What could bring nuclear-powered cruisers backQ&A
  74. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    33:39Was Long Beach the last true U.S. cruiser?Q&A
  75. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    1:56:07Lider's decades-old concept ancestryNotable Point
  76. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    3:09:52Russian powertrain options under engine constraintsQ&A
  77. Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions
    7:20Why nuclear-warship disposal is deferredQ&A
  78. Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions
    2:05:09If CVA-01 became a nuclear carrier classQ&A
  79. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)
    2:26:42Kirov class and a one-salvo fleet fightChapter
  80. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)
    2:37:04Do Kirov-class ships need ocean-going tugs?Q&A
  81. Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History
    22:47The nuclear strike cruiser becomes an unaffordable small carrierNotable Point
  82. Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:12:03Petr Velikiy and the risk of an incomplete refitQ&A
  83. An Introduction to My Top 10 Warships (No Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town Classes allowed)
    12:55HMS Conqueror and the sinking of General BelgranoNotable Point
  84. An Introduction to My Top 10 Warships (No Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town Classes allowed)
    20:06USS Enterprise and nuclear-carrier presenceNotable Point