The Cost of Antimatter

It would take 100 trillion megatons of nukes to peel the crust off a planet like Earth and 100 times that to vaporize one. This does not seem the cleverest use of weapons, but then again it turns out to be a decoy planet and a trap. The alternative though when dealing with a space-faring culture is to do a colony drop instead which is where you substitute dragging an asteroid onto a long trip to an enemy board.

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