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scaling laws for density and temperature of high-energy explosions

I'm wondering if there are heuristic ways to derive how the peak density and temperature of nuclear explosions scale with the amount of fissile/fusible material. Does it matter what the explosion ...
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Antimatter bomb

I stumbled upon this wikipedia article on antimatter weaponry. Being greatly appalled by the sad fact that large sums of money are being wasted on this, I could not stop myself from thinking for a ...
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What would happen after the collision matter and the anti-matter [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What actually happens when an anti-matter projectile collides with matter? Suppose 1 kg of a stray meteorite anti-matter moves to the earth. What would happen after ...