Project Habakkuk as a strategic bomber base at sea

What might have happened to Project Habakkuk after the war if it had been completed by December 1942?

It could have become a strategic bomber base at sea, first against Japan and later as a nuclear-era platform, while encouraging other powers to build their own versions.

The enormous pykrete hull would offer enough deck and support space to operate aircraft far larger than conventional wartime carriers could handle. In the nuclear era, a platform able to launch strategic bombers from the ocean would remain politically and militarily attractive. During the Pacific War it might have approached Japan from northern waters and reduced dependence on capturing forward islands for B-29 operations. Its success would create a second strategic problem as other powers tried to reproduce a technology that had turned water and refrigeration into a mobile airbase.