US planned to make love not war with 'gay bomb'

[Tinoire]

US planned to make love not war with 'gay bomb'
Sat 15 Jan 2005

THE US military investigated building a "gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each other.

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The 1994 plans were for a six-year project costing £4 million, but they were never pursued.

The US Air Force Wright Laboratory in Ohio sought Pentagon funding for research into what it called "harassing, annoying and ‘bad guy’-identifying chemicals".

The plans were obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act by the Sunshine Project, a group which monitors research into chemical and biological weapons.

The plan for a so-called "love bomb" envisaged an aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among troops, causing what the military called a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale.

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http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=54052005

[nankerphelge]

1. Glad to know our tax dollars are being well spent

n/t

[Deja Q]

2. ROTFLMAO! Man, I could say a whole heap of things about this...

But it'd get me banned, I'd guess. :D :D :D

Funny how all the extra-US media has this article and intra-US sources don't...

[da_chimperor]

3. You can't get any weirder than that. n/t

[PartyPooper]

4. I thought "Gay Bombs" related to "Gay Cinema".

And, at the moment, I can't think of a single "Gay Film" that I didn' like!

:D

:hi:

[Moderator]

5. duplicate

discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1149699