[Olefin]

The battleship group would have pretty good teeth as part of any attack on the Soviets - Iowa has 32 Tomahawks all on her own and could easily have nuclear armed versions if need be and the Tico's would help defend her and add more Tomahawks as well - and she is a lot more survivable than a carrier

She could probably take hits that would put a CVN on the bottom or completely combat ineffective and still fight

And I agree - sending a CVN into the Baltic is flat out suicide - the only way that carrier would be in the Baltic is if every Soviet airfield, missile base and long range bomber group was already destroyed -heck where she the Soviets would basically be able to hit her with long range missiles from the airspace directly above their airfields

All reference to that nuclear carrier being in the Baltic needs to be removed - and T2K is about a possible believable WWIII where, at least at the beginning, militaries are making strategic and tactical decisions that arent the equivalent of the Japanese throwing away their carriers at Leyte as decoys

if you really have to have a USN nuclear carrier in a port with massive damage then make it in the UK or possibly Norway