The U.S. Milary Once Proposed a “Gay” Bomb

MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'

The Ig Nobel peace prize went to the US Air Force’s Wright Laboratory Oh for s 1994 plan to velop a weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irristible to one another, an ia later dubbed the “gay bomb”. Details of the scheme were unvered a classified document (pdf) that suggts a strong aphrodisiac would be “pletely non-lethal” but uld be serly disptive “pecially if the chemil also ed homosexual behavur.

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.

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.

THE "GAY BOMB" AND MEDIL APHRODISIACS

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.

GAY BOMB AND BMJ THORS W PRIZ

After readg about the theoretil gay bomb, check out the super real Bat Bomb. Former Nobel lreat and other rearchers at Harvard award the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize to the creators of the "gay bomb" -- a non-lethal ary weapon unr velopment tend to duce moralizg homosexual behavr wh aphrodisiacs.

From sword-swallowg to a 'gay' bomb. Dubbed the 'gay bomb'? Dpe the mers of the petg ncepts, none had que the 'legs', so to speak, of the gay Ig Nobels?

GAY BOMB AND BMJ THORS W PRIZ

But the gay bomb would never have basked their glow had not been for the Sunshe Project At, Texas.

The group's director Edward Hammond ught wd of the report when he saw a promotnal CD-ROM of 'non-lethal weapons', promptg him to seek all supportg documents unr the Freedom of Informatn fate of the gay bomb project is unclear, says Ig Nobel imprar Marc Abrahams, who was told by former lab staff that? If rearch on the gay bomb had proceed further, would have immediately been stamped secret, and neher you nor I would have any way of knowg about .? The Ig Nobel awards, given for science that “first mak you lgh, then mak you thk, ” were given to recipients om five ntents by six wners of the actual Nobel prize last week at Harvard unual weapon, nfirmed by Pentagon sourc, is a “gay bomb” (, 12 Jun, “Sunshe project unvers US ary ‘gay bomb'”).