This episode explores how the World Wars transformed humanity's relationship with time. In World War I, time became a tool of precision and death — battles like the Somme were scheduled to the exact minute, costing tens of thousands of lives in mere hours. Yet for soldiers and civilians, time also became unbearably slow, marked by endless waiting, uncertainty, and suspense.

In World War II, time accelerated into a race — Blitzkrieg attacks swept nations in days, while scientists on the Manhattan Project raced to build the atomic bomb before their enemies. The war standardized global time coordination, using synchronized clocks and time zones to coordinate armies across continents.

Even after the wars ended, memory froze time through silence, ceremo ...