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Real conversations with real people about tough topics – like nuclear weapons, women in the military, North Korea, and K-Pop. It’s foreign policy for the rest of us, hosted by defense analys...
A quick note: Independent journalism like Things That Go Boom only exists because of listener support. And right now, Newsmatch is doubling...
As violence continues in Gaza, a new strategy inside the Palestine solidarity movement is taking shape — one aimed not at city streets or co...
For a century, the weapons industry has helped shape St. Louis — from the McDonnell Douglas fighters that once symbolized American air power...
San Diego’s Barrio Logan is a place defined by both proximity and resistance — pressed against naval shipyards, fenced in by freeways, and c...
When 27-year-old Gabriel Sanchez won his Democratic primary in Smyrna, Georgia — home to a massive Lockheed Martin plant — few expected an o...
When a 77-year-old Vietnam vet and former city councilman takes on a luxury apartment development in Scottsdale, Arizona, it sounds like cla...
Why do local governments keep handing out tax breaks to defense contractors… even when the promised jobs don’t materialize? In the first epi...
Across the country — from DC to Los Angeles to Chicago — the military is more visible in daily life than it’s been in years. But behind the...
Mahmoud Khalil became the face of Palestinian rights at Columbia University when the Syrian-born refugee refused to wear a mask and negotiat...
If you live in the US, buying a gun can be as easy as going to Walmart. In countries with strict gun laws, such as most of Europe or Austral...
Nearly everyone has played dress up at some point in their lives, whether putting on mom or dad’s clothes as kids, for Halloween, as their f...
Initially assigned to $100 million bank failure investigations, Mike German’s FBI career took a pivotal turn in 1992, when he went undercove...
True to his promise, on the first day of Donald Trump’s second term as president, he pardoned more than 1,500 people charged in connection w...
Amy Cooter has been studying US militias since 2008 when, as a graduate student in Michigan, she attended a public meeting of a group that w...
In 1970, Canada’s streets were full of troops and the country was on edge. Quebec cabinet minister Pierre Laporte had been captured by a mil...
When Members of Congress are sworn into office, they say an oath. To protect the country from all enemies… foreign and domestic. But what do...
When former US Navy Intelligence Officer Andrew McCormick spent the holiday season in Kandahar in 2013, attempts at holiday cheer were every...
One night In 1968, Ed Meagher was finishing his last shift at Clark Airways, which included authenticating and repeating messages for the nu...
This month on Things That Go Boom, we’re passing the mic to three veterans to share their memories in their words . In this first entry: Whe...
After a season spent examining feminist foreign policies around the world, we turn our attention back to the US. Will the US adopt a feminis...
Political Scientist Cynthia Enloe is, arguably, the reason we’re all here. She was one of the first to explore gender in international relat...
As civilian casualties mount in Gaza and many more conflicts around the world kill and displace vulnerable people, we ask, "What can feminis...
When news of a new disaster seems to roll in every day… it can feel like there’s little hope. But what if we had… another option? Not just t...
When does something as deeply personal as abortion become a matter of foreign policy? Maybe when it becomes a stand-in for national values a...
Mexico's gotten a lot of praise for its feminist foreign policy — despite ongoing femicide in the country. But Mexican women are doing more...
It took two years, after holdups from Turkey and Hungary, but Sweden has officially joined NATO. A move not everyone in Sweden is super psyc...
This season on Things That Go Boom, we’re on a mission to figure out this new thing spreading like wildfire across the world: feminist forei...
With more than 50 elections set to take place around the world, 2024 will be a battle for democracy. It will also be a battle for peace. Bec...
Click Here is a podcast, hosted by Dina Temple-Raston, that tells true stories about the people making and breaking our digital world. Earli...
What do swarms of autonomous drones, facial recognition, and nuclear test site monitoring have in common? They are all things we were still...
On Sunday, the people of Poland cast their votes in an election that some have called a battle for the country’s soul. When we released this...
We’re about a year out from a presidential election, and former President Donald Trump is leading the Republican pack in spite of his suppor...
When we say that we’re going to store something “in the cloud” it sounds like an ethereal place somewhere in the atmosphere. But the online...
Internet blackouts — when internet service is shut down in a country or region — have become much more common over the last decade. But who...
It’s one of our biggest problems in 2023, and it can feel distinctly human. But it's not. All sorts of animals deal with all sorts of misinf...
Greg is an artist whose clients include Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons. And much like a lot of the folks striking in Hollywood...
In the age of Oppenheimer, nuclear weapons didn’t have much to do with computers. And, for a long time, most nukes were running on 1970s-era...
We need the internet. No, seriously. In 2023, the digital realm isn’t so much a portal as it is the undercurrent of our lives: The web carri...
You know the internet — that big, vast, expanse that powers our lives and every single thing we do. It’s all we seem to talk about these day...
We’re hard at work on Season 8 of Things That Go Boom, coming your way July 10. But in the meantime, we wanted to drop in and share a specia...
America’s war on communism in southeast Asia dragged the entire region into the fray, and the impacts are still an ever-present danger. (You...
There are tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of edible plants in the world. But humans only cultivate a couple hundred of those at any sig...
Just two years ago, Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was in prison. It’s a fairytale-like comeback story. But his life is also...
Despite being banned, anti-personnel landmines and unexploded submunitions still litter fields from Bosnia to Bangladesh. And they’re even b...
One morning in the 2010s, a rural midwestern farmer called the cops. There was a guy in a suit sniffing around a field near town. A big SUV...
We turn our attention to the narrow strait that divides China and Taiwan, which some analysts believe is the most likely flashpoint for anot...
Conversations about downsizing America’s defense budget almost immediately stall out in a Catch-22: Reallocating those tax dollars to invest...
Many Americans once viewed the US military as a reliable road to a middle-class life. But, despite record-breaking military spending in rece...
Samin Nosrat joins us to talk about cooking, conflict, and the global forces shaping the food on our plates. Have you ever tried Saigon cinn...
On the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, endangered plants bloom on the shrubsteppe. The Yakama Nation signed a treaty in 1855 to cede some of it...