WASHINGTON – It can level a thick jungle, shake the earth violently and send up a billowy mushroom cloud of hot smoke. At 17 feet long -- about the size of a minivan -- and 5 feet in diameter, the BLU ...

Few weapons have commanded as much awe and intrigue as the BLU-82 Daisy Cutter. Its origins trace back to the Vietnam War when it was conceived to level jungles and create makeshift landing zones.

I keep waiting to see this explained by CNN or the Tulsa World but what is the "Daisy Cutter" bomb and how was such a thing invented? -- C.T., Tulsa. The term "daisy cutter," in referring to a bomb, ...

LAST NOVEMBER, during the heady days of Operation Enduring Freedom, the U.S. military dropped a 15,000-pound bomb known as a Daisy Cutter on Taliban positions in Afghanistan. The bomb flattened ...

One month after it began, the United States resumed bombing runs against Taliban front-lines north of Kabul Wednesday, and appeared to be shifting its weapon of choice to a more destructive type of ...