Winds from nuclear Starbursts: Old truths and recent progress on superwinds

I will discuss a few select aspects of the most common and best understood galactic-scale outflow - starburst-driven superwinds, focusing on winds from nuclear starburst galaxies. I will show that modern observations, in particular in the soft and hard X-ray bands, complement and reinforce the existing paradigm of superwinds as flows collectively driven by multiple SNe. The properties of the diffuse X-ray emission from dwarf starburst galaxies, LBOL∼L* starburst in spiral galaxies, and ULIRGS, are all consistent with superwind activity. Where appropriate, I contrast the physics of starburst-driven winds with poorly collimated winds from AGN, and discuss what we know of the role of LLAGN and Seyfert nuclei in starburst superwind galaxies.