Re: what kind of bomb?

cpaul <inc@fastmedia.net> wrote :

Witnesses also said they saw a U.S. plane drop a bomb Tuesday at the Bagram front lines, about 25 miles north of Kabul, creating a mushroom cloud that billowed at least 1,000 feet into the air.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011030/ts/attacks_afghanistan_549.html

A really big one. Still conventional. Besides, a standard-sized one might have hit a munitions or fuel bunker. Hell, a 10 acre tire fire in central California made a "mushroom" shaped cloud several thousand feet high. During Vietnam there were boxcar-sized bombs used to clear an LZ in the jungle. How many tons? I don't know but they made ~100 yard circle.