The sea component consisted of nuclear missiles launched from submarines, like the Ohio-class. But the sea component was almost augmented to include nuclear artillery shells from the Iowa-class.

A Soviet Kirov-class battlecruiser, attempting to intercept a U.S. Navy carrier battle group, is intercepted by the battleship USS Iowa. The biggest ship-against-ship battle since the World War ...

Notably, the Iowa-class battleship. At a time when aircraft carriers and submarines were the toast of Washington, DC, the Iowa-class battleships were seen as a throwback to a bygone age.But Reagan ...

In the 1980s, during the height of the Cold War, the four Iowa-class battleships were brought back into service as part of President Reagan’s strategy to build a 600-ship Navy.