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From: silber@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Largest Bomb dropped
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Date: 3 Apr 89 05:23:40 GMT
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From: silber@p.cs.uiuc.edu


>Large charges of conventional explosives will give a small, brief mushroom
>cloud.  It's entirely believable that fuel-air explosions would too.

They don't even have to be that large, just fairly hot.  Some of the f/x 
explosives they use produce nice little mushrooms about 6' high.
(Oddly enough, the best example I've seen of this was on the Monty Python
epsiode about "the importance of not being seen", a major tenent of modern
tactics.)

ami silberman