what kind of bomb?

[FogStorm]

On Wednesday, October 31, 2001, at 08:39  PM, FogStorm wrote:

> 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

It also could have been a fuel-air explosive.

The BLU-95 is 500 pounds & the BLU-96 is 2000. They use propylene oxide 
gas.

Slide show of weapon in action with brief description: 
http://www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/~bronkhor/clmf/faeseq.html