La guerre froide culturelle

Il y a une histoire peu racontée qui dit beaucoup sur la personnalité de J. Robert Oppenheimer.Elle se déroule bien avant la bombe. Dans les années 1920, Oppenheimer est étudiant à Cambridge. Et contrairement à l’image du génie calme et brillant, il est alors fragile, anxieux, pr ...  Show more

Le projet Manhattan, c’est l’un des programmes scientifiques les plus secrets — et les plus décisifs — du XXe siècle. Lancé en 1942 par les États-Unis en pleine Seconde Guerre mondiale, son objectif est clair : fabriquer la première bombe atomique avant l’Allemagne nazie.Tout com ...  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

On today's show, we look at two indicators of the economic disruptions of the war in Gaza and try to trace how far they will reach. We start in the Red Sea, a crucial link in the global supply chain connecting to the Suez Canal, with around 15% of the world's shipping passing thr ...  Show more