Nothing Says "BOOM!" Like Antimatter

If you thought the prospect of Iran and North Korea getting nuclear weapons just wasn't scary enough for Halloween, do we have news for you! The Air Force has been forced to reveal that it has been working on ANTIMATTER WEAPONS.

The energy from colliding positrons and antielectrons "is 10 billion times ... that of high explosive," Edwards explained in his March speech. Moreover, 1 gram of antimatter, about 1/25th of an ounce, would equal "23 space shuttle fuel tanks of energy." Thus "positron energy conversion," as he called it, would be a "revolutionary energy source" of interest to those who wage war.

For those having a hard time imagining the powers involved, imagine a paperclip of antimatter. If this came into contact with a paper clip of normal matter, it would release more energy than the explosion that leveled Hiroshima. And to make it more interesting, you don't need the kind of extremely delicate machinery to use antimatter than you need to explode a nuke properly. Of course, as of now you need a particle accelerator to make antimatter, so I guess it does take some scientific expertise to get there.