On this episode I talk about superweapons, both in Star Wars and in our own world. I tell the story of nuclear weapons: they can’t blow up planets, but their invention forever changed warfare, global geopolitics, and, as one critic argues, U.S. democracy.

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Show art by Charlie Ashby (@CMWAshby)