what kind of bomb?

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On Wednesday, October 31, 2001, at 09:11  AM, mmotyka at lsil.com wrote:

> cpaul <inc at 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.
>
BLU-82

15,000 lb.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/dumb/blu-82.htm