<i>Game of Thrones</i>: Dragons Are the Nuclear Option
The creatures are the most powerful weapon in Westeros, but “The Spoils of War” showed the horrific cost of using them.
This post contains spoilers through the most recent episode of Game of Thrones, “The Spoils of War.”
It’s no secret that dragons have a deeper meaning on . George R.R. Martin has specifically as “the nuclear deterrent.” Timothy Westmyer, a former research and program assistant at George Washington University, has in the that dragons are “living, fire-breathing metaphors for nuclear weapons,” and that the series is deliberate in using dragons as a warning about the “inherent dangers”
