The biggest conventional bomb in the US arsenal was used yesterday outside Khandahar in Afghanistan. It's called the daisy cutter; a somewhat euphemistic name for an airborne fuel air bomb that's the size of a car and explodes at waist level flattening and burning everything for 100's of yards. The Chinese invented the bomb some 800 years ago. It wasn't a lot nicer. They packed shards of broken porcelain around the explosive inside a bamboo tube. But the history of bombing is more than a history of bigger and nastier and nuclear.
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Sven Lindqvist, author of "A History of Bombing" and Con Crane, professor of Military Strategy at the Army War College.
