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In Desert Storm, SPECOPS C-130s dropped 15K "Daisy Cutters". Mushroom cloud and blast were so big, Iraqis checked area with geiger counters, suspecting that it was a small nuke. Big psychological impact causing Iraqis to lite up a lot of equipment. They all had to talk about it. See following: "Days before the start of the ground war, the forces began dropping 15,000 pound 'Daisy Cutter' bombs on Iraqi troops from the back of C-130 transport planes.... Terrified Iraqis were certain that the devastating explosion signaled the beginning of the ground war, and turned on their air-defense radars all along the boarder. American pilots pinpointed many air-defense installations they never new existed. Says one Pentagon official, 'We were able to 'paint' every radar electronically and knock them out.'"