My fear is that they either know they now have us technologically and that we can’t catch up, or they have developed the next “secret weapon”.
Look through history, the “secret weapon” or technology advance has always been the war winner. bronze, iron, horse shoes, bridle, cannon, armor, aircraft, nuclear weapons.
What is next? An ability to take out all of an enemies nukes? Or, antimatter weapons?
The anti-matter possibility you mentioned is very intriguing indeed. I’m afraid that the administration is deliberately giving up our nukes so the Chinese and Russians are getting more brazen by the minute now.
Quantities measured in grams will be required to achieve destructive effect comparable with conventional nuclear weapons; one gram of antimatter annihilating with one gram of matter produces 180 terajoules, the equivalent of 42.96 kilotons of TNT .Unlike thermonuclear weaponry, positron weaponry would leave behind “no nuclear residue”, such as the nuclear fallout generated by the nuclear fission reactions which power nuclear weapons. Antimatter is expensive to produce though. The cost of a gram of the stuff is 2.5 million dollars and it would take 250 years to produce typical hydrogen bomb levels. But I love it.Fantastic idea.