China is mirroring Soviet Union’s approach towards building nuclear-powered aircraft carrier

A report by South China Morning Post says China is hoping to develop a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier by first putting the reactors on icebreakers.

RIAN archive 186141 Nuclear icebreaker Arktika (cropped)
RIA Novosti archive, image #186141 / Nikolai Zaytsev / CC-BY-SA 3.0 [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

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