How is it safe to have a nuclear reactor on aircraft carriers and submarines when they are a potential military targets?

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How is it safe to have a nuclear reactor on aircraft carriers and submarines when they are a potential military targets?

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I have no idea how nuclear-powered vessels are constructed, but couldn’t an explosive weapon penetrating to the reactor or a magazine detonation end up blowing a radioactive cloud of what used to be the reactor into the air?

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