Mar 2, 2018 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
* Fission involved breaking apart the nuclei of heavy elements like uranium or plutonium.* Fusion involves forcing the nuclei of lighter elements, like hydrogen or deuterium, together.* And deuterium, which is basically heavy hydrogen, is far easier to get your hands...
Feb 19, 2018 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
* The Potsdam declaration on Japan was tricky.* It was drafted while Churchill was still PM.* In fact it was probably one of the last things he did as PM.* But it was signed by Attlee.* Stalin had to be involved, but he couldn’t sign it because the U.S.S.R. was still...
Dec 8, 2017 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Recent |
Prof Michael Neiberg is Chair of War Studies and Professor of History, Department of National Security and Strategy, US Army War College. He has also written a number of excellent books on the First World War – as well as the book we are talking about today...
Oct 27, 2017 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
Harry S. Truman. Farmer. Soldier. Failed businessman. Given his political career by a mobbed-up bootlegger. Became President through fate. Adopted John Wayne persona to try to look tough.
Oct 6, 2017 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
Stalin crushes the Ukrainian Catholic Church, partly because socialists believe religion is the opium of the masses, and partly because the Pope, Pius XII, had done a deal with Hitler and was a virulent anti-Communist.
Sep 8, 2017 | Free, Latest, Podcast, Premium, Recent |
What does Dracula have to do with the Cold War? The next issue to drive a wedge between the Big Three was the government of Romania.
