Its government is under pressure to match North Korea’s nuclear arms buildup with nukes of its own, with 70 percent of its citizens wanting nuclear arms.
First conceptualized by the U.S. Navy in the 90s, but never built, the ship would put numerous precision-guided missiles at sea and out of North Korea’s reach.
Suspicions that Iranian electronic warfare could have downed the Saudi F-15, although some experts say the avionics caused it, like Su-30 that crashed in Russia.