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Originally Posted by Aldric
Which also still doesn't consider what happens when that container is broken, I don't want to do the math, but I wouldn't want to be anywhere near one of those ships.
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As long as the tons are metric the math is simple.
UT has 1 gram of antimatteer making a 43 kiloton explosion. Therefore a kilogram of antimatter is 43 megaton explosion and ton is a 43 gigaton explosion. Then 150 tons is 6.45 teratons of an explosion.
If you wonder you passed the combined nuclear stockpile of the US and the USSR at the peak of the Cold War when you went past 10 gigatons. You haven't quite caught up to the Chixulub dino-killer at an estimated 16 teratons but you get special bonus points for how much of your antimatter explosion in space is in gamma rays.
So Earth-Luna space and anywhere else that's inhabited is a no-go zone for antimatter destroyers. The only way the cure wouldn't be potentially worse than the disease was if you were being attacked with missiles that had 150 ton antimatter warheads.