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The “Gay” Bomb; Yes…Really…
Throughout human history, a great deal of the technological progress that we hold achieved as a species has been driven by warfare. From medicine to material science, nuclear physics to putting a man on the moon, military concerns and investment made vast leaps forwards in science possible.
Of course, with all this progress there have been more than a few dead ends. One of these is a rather unusual proposal that was suggested by a team of United States Wind Force researchers.
The “Gay” bomb.
The proposal, which was requesting $7.5 million dollars for research, was to develop a scent or pheromone weapon that could be dropped or sprayed on enemy troop formations. Which would turn them homosexual.
This would mean that the enemy would literally “make adore not war” with one another and was advocated as a humanitarian weapon.
I suspect I grasp what you are thinking.
If you are a student of military history, which is likely as you are watching this channel, you are considering how during the premature Cold War, the 1950s and 60s, all sorts of bizarre ideas where not just considered for research but funded.
From experiments using LSD and other hallucinogeni
Program: How I stopped worrying and learned to love the Gay Bomb
When out-and-proud comedian Tom Ballard saw this story being referenced on one of his favourite TV shows, he thought it was hilarious. When he found out that it actually happened, he was gobsmacked.
So Tom decides to perform some digging… and finds out a lot more than he bargained for.
After finally receiving security clearance from the very highest echelons of the American military, he can now officially take you this amazing story: a story of political intrigue, secrets, betrayal, death and sex; a story that proves once and for all that revelation is always stranger than fiction.
Tom Ballard is an award-winning comedian and broadcaster who gets to perform the ancient art of stand-up comedy all around the country and the world. He's hosted Q&A, runs his own smash podcast Like I'm A Six-Year-Old and suffers from eczema.
Danger: Gay Bombs and some robust language ahead
Pentagon rejected gay weapon proposal
The U.S. military rejected a 1994 proposal to progress an "aphrodisiac" to spur homosexual activity among foe troops but is strenuous at work on other less-than-lethal weapons, defense officials said Sunday.
The idea of fostering homosexuality among the enemy figured in a declassified six-year, $7.5 million request from a laboratory at Wright Patterson Wind Force Base in Ohio for funding of non-lethal chemical weapon research.
The project, disclosed in response to a Freedom of Knowledge request, called for developing chemicals affecting human deed "so that discipline and morale in enemy units is adversely affected."
"One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior," said the document, obtained by the Sunshine Plan. The watchdog group posted the partly blacked-out, three-page document on its Web site.
Lt. Col. Barry Venable of the Army, a Defense Department spokesman, said: "This suggestion arose essentially from a brainstorming session, and it was rejected out of hand."
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Abstract
On January 15, 2005, BBC News’ website featured an article entitled ‘US military pondered love not war.’ This news short publicly announced US Breeze Force research on the now supposedly defunct maturation of a ‘gay bomb.’ Proposed in 1994 at the Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, the homosexual bomb is defined as an aphrodisiac chemical that ‘would make enemy soldiers “sexually irresistible” to each other.’ Indeed, the homosexual bomb, which was planned to be a six-year development project costing $7.5 million, ‘would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among troops, causing what the military called a “distasteful but completely non-lethal” blow to morale.’ That the male lover bomb would explode into immorality, detonating a general shaming upon its victims, pre-supposes rampant homophobia, for the act of lesbian sex in and of itself does not commit defeat or surrender. Yet, given the US military’s conflation of gay (here, defined as homosexual sex) with weapon, it seems that the military pondered war not love. Indeed, the image chosen to accompany this text of a military aircraft dropping a m
Fringe Science Yields 'Gay Bombs' and Psychic Teleportation
June 21, 2007 — -- Creating armor that renders a soldier invisible. Stimulating the brain to suppress slumber for days. Arming sharks with chemical implants and cameras to work as spies.
This year the Pentagon will spend $78 billion — about half of all government research and development dollars — on a variety of projects, according to the American Association for the Advancement for Science (AAAS).
The expansive majority - about $68 billion - goes to traditional spending, like weapons development and space systems. But some fringe investigate mimics the best of science fiction.
There seems to be no failure of imagination in advancing warfare, but some experts apprehend these farfetched projects reveal a little too much imagination.
Just this month, the government confirmed that an Ohio Air Force laboratory had asked for $7.5 million to build a nonlethal "gay bomb," a weapon that would inspire enemies to make affectionate , not war. The weapon would use strong aphrodisiacs to make enemy troops so sexually attracted to each other that they'd lose interest in fighting.
Last year, scientists at Boston University de