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Contents:

• THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB
• AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY
• A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER
• THE US MILARY ONCE ACTIVELY PROPOSED A $7.5 MILLN 'GAY BOMB'
• GAY BOMB
• MILARY PROPOSED "GAY BOMB"
• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “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. Air Force, produced a three page proposal for a “gay bomb” Twter Can’t Kill Twter | Letter From the EdorOffEnglishDocumentatn obtaed by the Sunshe Project, an anti-blogil weapons non-ernmental anizatn, found that the Oh-based Wright Lab requted a 6 year, $7. It proposed a bomb “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”.

While the laboratory also me up wh siarly qutnable ias, such as bad-breath bombs, flatulence bombs and bombs signed to attract swarms of stgg sects to enemy batants, one has to adm that the gay bomb is certaly the most Pentagon matas that the love affair wh the gay bomb ia was brief. When newly elected Print Bill Clton attempted to lift the ban on homosexuals the ary, there was a d of saber rattlg, pchfork sharpeng and moral hand-wrgg om the ary general nsens among many lears of the ary was touted by the Department of Defence, “Homosexualy is patible wh ary service.

AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY

” And that allowg gay people the ary would pose a secury risk and dispt the need orr for the ary to be rultg Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (later fully lled Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue, and Don’t Harass) promise, which has sce been stck down, was ls than thrillg for the Pentagon at such circumstanc, wh paranoia about gay people disptg ary disciple and morale, this project seems, notwhstandg s highly flawed premise, somewhat more unrstandable, at least terms of how they me up wh the to the science behd this ary farce, while var pani, peddlg scented sprays and b-ons, fd expedient to claim that their product ntas human pheromon which have an aphrodisiac effect, lab ttg has lagged behd somewhat actually nfirmg any of this. Admtedly, one sectn of the documents, entled “New Disveri Need” acknowledg that, th far, no such chemils have been found to the Gay Bomb project never beme perhaps more than a pie the sky dream of the Wright Lab, has gaed a send lease on life through news media, popular culture and even news of this proposed weapon of mass lov’ even spawned a mil, disappotgly entled “Gay Bomb – The Mil”. Why they chose this tle, as opposed to say “Brothers--Arms”, “Das Booty”, or “Savg Ryan’s Privat” is a mystery we may never solve…For the attempt at makg a gay bomb, the Wright Lab had the honor of wng the Ig Nobel Peace Prize 2007.

A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER

The levy of the event seemed lost on the gay bomb creators, however, who kept a straight face about the whole matter; they cled to attend the award ceremony to accept the prize personally. If you liked this article, you might also enjoy:When the Canadian Government Tried to Use “Gay Detectors” to Root Out Homosexual EmployeThe Only Major League Baseball Player to Openly Adm He was Gay Durg His Career Also is the Reason We Have the High FiveHow “Gay” Came to Mean “Homosexual”The Man Who Survived Two Nuclear Bomb AttacksBon Fact:One person, Sir Andre Geim, has actually won both an IG Nobel Prize ( 2000) and a real Nobel Prize ( 2010).

His actual Nobel Prize was won “for groundbreakg experiments regardg the two-dimensnal material graphene” Wright Lab was named after aviatn pneers Wilbur and Orville 1991, Dick Cheney, then the Secretary of Defense, dismissed the then mon ia that homosexuals the ary would somehow be disptive or pose a secury risk. And th the "gay bomb" was born.

"One distasteful but non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, pecially if the chemil also ed homosexual behavur, " says the proposal om the Air Force's Wright Laboratory Dayton, Pentagon did not ny that the proposal had been ma: "The partment of fence is mted to intifyg, rearchg and velopg non-lethal weapons that will support our men and women uniform. "Aaron Belk, director of the Universy of California's Michael Palm Centre, which studi the issue of gays the ary, said: "The ia that you uld subm someone to some aerosol spray and change their sexual behavur is ludicro. Larry Sanrs wr about servg the army, where he uld have been arrted for beg gay durg a very unpopular war.

THE US MILARY ONCE ACTIVELY PROPOSED A $7.5 MILLN 'GAY BOMB'

The day Larry Sanrs registered for the draft, one qutn buried the middle of a long qutnnaire smacked him the face: “Do you intify as a homosexual or ever had sexual feelgs for persons of the same sex? At the time Sanrs registered for the draft 1967, no one was clear about what happened to someone who admted beg gay. When I registered for the draft jt a few years later, I was told not to say I was gay, bee they would make you prove .

GAY BOMB

How do someone not datg anyone “prove” they’re gay?

He didn’t really intify as homosexual. And as a gay soldier, he didn’t particularly relate to those who served wh him. And what about beg a gay soldier an army that forba ?

Although many of the nspiraci are lghable, sometim the most ridiculo mors turn out to be te, cludg the real proposal of strange fensive tactics like a flatulence bomb and a "gay bomb. Strangelove, but documents prove the ernment really did toy wh plans of a homosexual cendiary vice.

MILARY PROPOSED "GAY BOMB"

Although the ia of a fense tool that aims to make enemy batants gay might have seemed appropriate the 1950s, when Amerins feared atomic vic, UFOs full of aliens, and nnabis-crazed teenagers, the proposal of the gay blz actually took place the 1990s.

The US Milary Feared Homosexualy For Years. By the mid-20th century, homosexualy had e to be viewed as a mental fect.

THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

Amid Fears of Homosexual Disptn, A US Air Force Lab Proposed The 'Harassg, Annoyg and "Bad Guy" Intifyg Chemils Project'. One year after Clton iated the DADT policy, some members of the ernment clearly weren't over their unease wh homosexualy. The Project Also Proposed Weakeng Enemy Troops Wh A 'Gay Bomb'.

Along wh proposals for distractg enemy troops wh flatulence and bad breath, scientists at Wright Laboratory also noted that "[o]ne distasteful but pletely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, pecially if the chemil also ed homosexual behavr;" other words, a "gay bomb. Perhaps a rult of the US ernment's ia that homosexualy spells disaster for troops, the project's creators believed the proposed vice "would be disptive to un morale and effectivens. After the Sunshe Project publicly revealed the "gay bomb" proposal, the Department of Defense (DOD) claimed they nsired the ias but never ma any attempt to put them to actn.