Rework missiles?

[Hawkeye]

Now, the table at Atomic Rocket might be wrong (the site is usually right and I doubt it would be wrong with a rather simple calculation), but it clearly states that 1.8x10^17 joules equals 43 MT of TNT equals 1 kilogram of Anti-Matter + 1 kg of Matter.
On the top of that table, it is said that the arbitrarily set standard for 1 gram of TNT = 4184 joules is used.

[TallTroll]

Nope...

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1.8 x 10^11 43 t 1 milligram of antimatter + 1 milligram of matter
Thems is milligrams... AM annihilation is massively more efficient than fission / fusion. 1 kg of AM + 1 kg of matter would vapourise a fairly large chunk of the Earth, I suspect

[Hawkeye]

I think we are talking past each other here.

Yes, 1.8 x 10^11 joules is equal to 43 tons of TNT is equal to 1 miligram of antimatter + 1 miligram of matter

Therefore, 1.8 x 10^17 joules, which is 1 million times as much, is equal to 43 mega-tons of TNT and reqires 1 million times as much antimatter, i.e. 1 kg

[TallTroll]

Right, you were reading this line

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1.8 x 10^17 43 Mt 1 kilogram of antimatter + 1 kilogram of matter
Heh, yes. City killer power in a 2l drink bottle. BOOOOOM!

[Hawkeye]

Yep.

While not planet-shattering, it is still a bloody big boooom. I wouldn´t want to be anywhere near it