Every single time Troy Denning uses the word "baradium" in a Star Wars book, I want to dissolve into a pile of spare molecules on the floor.
The first time, to my memory, is in Star by Star, when the Myrkr strike team packs along a baradium missile in the box with the YVH droids and stuff. In this scene, we're told that baradium is the same stuff that makes thermal detonators particularly powerful, and the single baradium missile, even though it went off on a proximity fuse to preempt a dovin basal void swallowing it, instantly destroys a Yuuzhan Vong matalok, a warship class that a few books later takes three direct proton torpedo hits from X-Wings to destroy. Later in Star by Star, when we're introduced to shadow bombs, it seems like part of what makes them so special is that they have a baradium payload. Problem is, regular thermal detonators aren't superweapons.
It gets worse later on, when it basically turns into Star Wars word substitution for a nuke. At the end of Fate of the Jedi: Vortex, there's a scene where the Council wonders in horror about whether Daala would use a baradium explosive on Coruscant. In Abyss, when Luke and Ben find Sinkhole Station, Ben's first reaction is "we should hit it with the baradium missile we don't have" like this is Halo or something where nukes can magically break stuff made by civilizations millions of years more advanced than our heroes.
Just, if the idea here is that baradium explosives are some special thing that is essentially a Star Wars coded nuke, the only reason there would be something else less potent that normal torpedoes use is if baradium is much rarer or more expensive. But it's not like regular detonators are particularly hard for major militaries to get in large numbers.
Legacy of the Force: Tempest indicates at one point that baradium is what's in standard torpedoes, making that subtext even weirder.
Now I'm running out of time to talk about this, so the Saxtonian perspectives about how this doesn't make sense in the context of the universe's power levels are being saved for later.
