Miles From Our Home ORBAT thread

First another good Orbat as always pyeknu .

Second, that is a heck of a Atlantic fleet and cannot see which i guess at this time would be the smaller Maritime Forces Pacific and the Canadian Pacific fleet.

   pyeknu

The capacity is there, but it's limited at the start to three shipyards:  Halifax Shipyards, Seaspan in Vancouver and Davie in Lévis.  A fourth is at Saint John Shipbuilding, but the site was effectively stripped of all shipbuilding capacity before the Shift; getting it reactivated will be done by both Irving (who owns the site) and FMF Saint John after it is stood up by the crew of HMCS Brunswicker.  And then there's Port Weller Dry Dock in St. Catharines, but it's limited to Seawaymax-sized ships.

When I get to introducing the Naval Reserves, I'll make note of construction engineer regiments created by the Canadian Military Engineers that will fall into a rôle similar to what the United States Army Corps of Engineers do in some aspects.  It is THEY who will build/expand the extra drydocks and graving docks needed to not only expand the Navy into such realms, but also allow an increase in civilian ship construction.  And once they're operational, the capital ships will come.

As for nuclear weapons, the answer is a big NO!  Nuclear power is a definite "yes"; they'll need it for submarines to patrol the Arctic and keep it clear of the Soviets.  But nuclear bombs or missiles?  The only way that could EVER sail in Canada is if someone directly threatens them with same and public attitudes concerning that change big time.

And as for the capital ships in question, think of the clue I gave in a previous post:  What capability did the Navy have up to Unification, then lost?

Considering that Britain's Tube Alloys research group and the MAUD Committee were active by June 1940 and that scientific research done towards nuclear fission and its applications would be transferred to the United States to get them started towards creating the Manhattan Engineering District to oversee nuclear research there, I'd think Atomic Energy of Canada would be given leave to help the Allies develop their own nuclear reactors.  While AECL wouldn't delve into nuclear weapons research, it's definitely coming.  At the same time, I'm sure that CSIS would have warned the FBI about Soviet attempts at infiltrating what would become the Manhattan Project, picking out people like Klaus Fuchs, Morris Cohen and their peers.  Given that the Soviet Union doesn't have natural uranium deposits, their own efforts to create the bomb would be dialed back somewhat thanks to the FBI's work in clearing out Soviet agents before Manhattan gets underway.  Yes, the Soviets have some brilliant scientists:  Igor Kurchatov, Lev Landau, and Kirill Sinelnikov were the ones who theorized that atoms could be split.  But to make it all work...!

As for Italy, since the Fascist party appears to be destined to survive past 1943, they would have their own means to pursue their own atomic weapons projects.  Enrico Fermi's friends among the Via Panisperna boys who also left Italy around 1938 would no doubt be enticed to come back home; given that the Nazis are on the ropes now, Mussolini doesn't have to pursue anti-Semetic legislation anymore and could get his country back to the multi-ethnic state it practically was when he took power in the 1920s.  Where that would lead is questionable.