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> There will be a scanner on the airport line that would detect antimatter atoms in quantities of more than a few thousand atoms, which is what you would need to create an explosion.

If I've got a kilo of antimatter in a briefcase, I'm just going to set it off at the scanner then, killing the ~10k people in the airport... and half the city it's part of.




Half the city? That much antimatter would take out half a state.

1Kg of antimatter is about the energy of the Tsar Bomba if you want to try it out: http://www.carloslabs.com/node/16




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