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When matter and antimatter annihilate they release a crazy amount of energy.  The Hiroshima nuke was only the equivalent of about 1/3rd a gram of matter-antimatter annihilation.   A bullet containing only 10grams of antimattter would therefore produce a yield of some half megaton equivalent of TNT!  However you really couldnt even load such a bullet into a gun, or fire it, or for that matter simply drop it without it releasing that amount of energy!!  Hell I think that even the 2nd amendment proponents might think twice before suggesting that antimatter bullets be allowed.... not that it would really be an issue anyway, as simply to produce a single antimatter bullet would probably cost as much as mankind has ever produced ever!



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How dangerous are antimatter bullets?

Antimatter bullets would without question be the most dangerous bullets on earth! They would also be the most expensive... costing MANY trillions of dollars! Finally they would be the most difficult to handle: merely dropping such a bullet would result in an explosion of comparable size to a half megaton nuclear bomb! https://www.patreon.com/Thunderf00t

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Anonymous

Thank you so much for the explanation of the spikes during a sub ms nuclear explosion. I use to think that it was the asymmetry of the device itself that caused this issue.

Bert Nielson

Loved this! Thank you for sharing this. I know there's lots of fantasy and assumptions in firing the projectile, but could you accelerate the bullet using a linear accelerator along the lines of a railgun to avoid the use of explosive matter?