A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.
Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently rejected, building the so-called “Gay Bomb.”
As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, “One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior.”
The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon.
“The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another,” Hammond said after reviwing the documents.
“The notion was that a chemical that would probably be pleasant in the human body in low quantities could be identified, and by virtue of either breathing or having their skin exposed to this chemical, the notion was that soliders would become gay,” explained Hammond.
the pentagon puts lots of money into smells. there is a whole non-lethal program that deals with smell weapons for use in crowd control and other situations that call for less than deadly force. most smell something like rotting corpse with a hint of skunk and feces. I haven’t heard of any with the described effect.
Yeah, how crazy is that? So much better to drop high explosives on them and kill them, rather then render them unable to fight without hurting them. Those nutty military people…
I don’t think it was the non-lethal part that people think is nutty, it’s the specifics of this idea that are nutty.
It wasn’t the only nutty idea they came up with, though. I heard that they had the bright idea of spraying a chemical on insurgents that would give them really bad breath- that way, you’d be able to identify the insurgents within the population. Uh . . . among other problems, what about people who have bad breath even without getting zapped with a Halitosis Ray?
The non-lethal part is good, though. Does anyone know if that big microwave has seen much action in Iraq?
**so what if the specifics are nutty? Maybe it is cuckoo, but if it had worked, great. **
Yeah, but really- how was it going to work? You think we could spray the enemy down with some pheremones, and make them so horny they’d drop their rifles and start screwing each other? I don’t think so, and if you could influence their behavior so deeply, the idea is still gratuitously nutty. Why not just hose them down with a peace-love-and-happiness spray, and turn them into hippies?
Yeah, I don’t know if the delivery method would have ever worked out. I do like your idea the hippy spray, though…ever thought of a new career as a military researcher?
ever thought of a new career as a military researcher?
lol. No, but I doubled as a test subject for awhile.
If I was a military researcher, my train of though would go like this:
“Gay bomb? Screw that, too complicated. How about a hippie spray? Nah, to warm and fuzzy. Let’s keep it basic. How about a fear spray? Hmm. Nah, screw that, let’s just induce fear by shooting at them. Stick with the guns, fellas.”
I’d never get a grant with that kind of reasoning.
this is either an onion-style farce, or from the fertile mind of john poindexter (the iran contra manager who more recently developed the futures market for terrorist attacks – all while cashing his DOD paychecks).
