"Wdtabor" wrote ...
The Kitty Hawk is home based in Japan, which will not allow a nuclear
carrier
in their ports for fear of resurecting Godzilla.

The Japanese kind of have this thing about nuclear weapons... Kid of hold a
grudge, I guess... The way it was explained to me when I was aboard the
Nimitz was that we only admit that our nuclear powered ships carry nuclear
weapons, thus they aren't allowed in Japanese harbors...