how much energy is contained in matter with mass of 1 gram (0.001 kilogram)?
1 gram of matter contains: 299,792,458^2=8.99 x 10^13 Joules=~21,500 Tons of TNT explosives, which is almost exactly the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in WW2.
e = mc^2 = (.001)(3 x 10^8)^2 1 x10^-3 * 9 x 10^16 = 9 x 10^13 joules