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If we're going to do research, we need to start somewhere. Developing weapons is one of the best ways to get a lot of money devoted to something that might otherwise have not been studied at all. Nuclear power, for example, stemmed off of the Manhattan Project's attempt to develop nuclear weapons. A similar thing will happen (eventually) with anti-matter research.
The problem is that the amount of energy needed to produce antimatter is above and beyond what we would get out of it. Until we develop an energy-efficient manner of producing antimatter, then the only feasible use for this stuff is either as a battery or as a weapon.
The amount of antimatter needed to cause an explosion the size of a nuclear bomb is currently beyond the planet's financial ability to pay for. I'm not worried.
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