In Popular Culture
The carrier appeared in Tom Clancy's novel, Red Storm Rising, assisting in the re-taking of Iceland. It also appeared in the Dale Brown novel Fatal Terrain, in which the carrier is destroyed by a "backpack" nuclear device smuggled on board and then detonated by the Chinese military as it leaves Yokosuka, although the actual events are never confirmed to the rest of the world.
The Carrier was also the set for Flight of the Intruder, a 1991 action film Starring Danny Glover.
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