Le paradoxe de Fermi

Lorsque s’ouvre le procès de Nuremberg en novembre 1945, un homme attire immédiatement l’attention plus que tous les autres accusés. Hermann Göring n’est pas un simple dignitaire nazi parmi d’autres. Il est l’ancien chef de la Luftwaffe, fondateur de la Gestapo, successeur offici ...  Show more

Le procès de Nuremberg est l’un des moments fondateurs de la justice internationale moderne. Il se tient entre novembre 1945 et octobre 1946, juste après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, dans la ville allemande de Nuremberg. Son objectif est inédit : juger les principaux responsables ...  Show more

The Suez Canal was once one of the busiest global shipping routes – a third of the world's shipping containers normally pass through it. Since the Houthis began to attack passing ships last year, the volume of vessels going through has declined rapidly.The canal is run by the Egy ...  Show more

A 50-mile man-made waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the creation of the Panama Canal was arguably the greatest infrastructure project the world had ever seen. But its journey from concept to completion was anything but simple, as it failed repeatedly, and pass ...  Show more

How did Britain and France almost start World War 3 in 1956? Who was Anthony Eden and why did he hate Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser? Why was the Suez Canal so vital to European oil supplies in the 1950s? Anita and William are joined by the brilliant Alex Von Tunzelmann, auth ...  Show more

You know of the Panama Canal (we already talked about it in Season 1 if you didn't), but you probably had no idea that a second canal has been in plans for a very, very long time now - one that passes through Nicaragua (that's north of Panama).


But the ...