Contents:
- THE GAY BOMB: A REAL THG THE US MILARY CONSIRED
- AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY
- MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
THE GAY BOMB: A REAL THG THE US MILARY CONSIRED
On Augt 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped Ltle Boy on the Japane cy of Hiroshima. The Begng or the End claimed the Amerin ary dropped warng leaflets about the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and that the Enola Gay me unr attack om Japane antiaircraft missile fire on s bombg n. Did not drop leaflets warng of the atomic bomb specifilly, though pilots may have dropped more general notic of impendg attacks on Hiroshima, and the Enola Gay did not e unr antiaircraft fire.
The ia of a gay bomb me om a sire to bilate and distract their opponents but not necsarily kill them. Wikimedia CommonsThe gay bomb was a theoretil cloud of gas that would turn enemy soldiers gay. The ncept of a “gay bomb” sounds like somethg out of a bad science fictn movie.
AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY
They put together a three-page proposal which they tailed their $7.5 ln ventn: the gay bomb. The gay bomb would be a cloud of gas that would be discharged over enemy mps “that ntaed a chemil that would e enemy soldiers to bee gay, and to have their uns break down bee all their soldiers beme irristibly attractive to one another.”.
MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
Basilly, the pheromon the gas would turn the soldiers gay. The scientists ntued to suggt addns to the gay bomb, cludg aphrodisiacs, and other scents.
Thankfully, the gay bomb was only ever theoretil and never put to motn. Like the gay bomb, the creative chemil ias also never me to un. Dpe the drawbacks, for their work such an novative field, the rearchers who nceptualized the gay bomb were award the Ig Nobel Prize, a parody award which celebrat unual scientific achievements that “first make people lgh, and then make them thk.”.
The gay bomb certaly fs the bill for that one.