Post-WWII the Navy fought the battle against the USAF on who should the prime deployer of nukes.
Without nukes, I believe the USAF will have the upper hand in the question „Who gets the resources to destroy the enemys infrastructure?“ and large armadas of large land based bombers would be procured. The USAF would make the argument that they need thousands of those to destroy the USSRs capacity to wage war. The Navy would still be a power projection force with its carriers, but without nukes, the USAF would be able to deliver more payload for less resources to more targets.
Without nukes, I believe the USAF will have the upper hand in the question „Who gets the resources to destroy the enemys infrastructure?“ and large armadas of large land based bombers would be procured. The USAF would make the argument that they need thousands of those to destroy the USSRs capacity to wage war. The Navy would still be a power projection force with its carriers, but without nukes, the USAF would be able to deliver more payload for less resources to more targets.