Part II: Apocalypse Now? Peter Thiel on Ancient Prophecies and Modern Tech

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Frank Dikötter and the True History of Communist China

Renowned historian and Hoover Institution senior fellow Frank Dikötter discusses his new book, Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity. Drawing from tightly controlled Chinese Communist Party archives and Soviet Comintern documents, Dikötter systematica ...  عرض المزيد

Five More Questions With Stephen Kotkin: Can America Still Lead The World?

Stephen Kotkin returns to Uncommon Knowledge for another round of five questions, this time on Iran, China, Ukraine, and the future of the American republic. Kotkin argues that America still possesses unmatched strengths — economic, technological, military, and cultural — but war ...  عرض المزيد

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The bomb (part 1): were nuclear weapons inevitable?
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Where did the world’s most devastating weapon come from? In a four-part series, we go behind the scenes at America's nuclear laboratories to understand how a scientific-mystery story about the ingredients of matter led to a world-changing (and second-world-war-ending) bomb less t ...  عرض المزيد

28. The Spy Who Betrayed Oppenheimer: The Manhattan Project (Ep 2)
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What makes a man betray his closest friends? How did a German refugee help Stalin build the bomb? And why did British intelligence fail to spot the most dangerous spy in the Manhattan Project? Klaus Fuchs was brilliant, quiet, and unassuming. A physicist at the cutting edge of n ...  عرض المزيد

What a Nuclear Physicist in Congress Thinks of Trump's AI Strategy, Iran's Bomb Threat
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In this week’s episode of One Decision, Congressman Bill Foster — the only Ph.D. physicist in Congress — joins hosts Christina Ruffini and Sir Richard Dearlove to examine the widening gap between science and policy in Washington. Foster warns that as the U.S. defunds research and ...  عرض المزيد