Gay Bomb: Story Behd The Story | WIRED

Contents:

• IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”
• AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY
• GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY
• THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB
• THE US MILARY ONCE ACTIVELY PROPOSED A $7.5 MILLN 'GAY BOMB'
• GAY HISTORY: THE U.S. MILARY’S PROPOSED “GAY” BOMB
• GAY BOMB
• GAY BOMB
• THE US MILARY ONCE CONSIRED MAKG A ‘GAY BOMB’
• DEPARTMENT OF WEIRD WEAPONS: THE GAY BOMB
• THE MYSTER SE OF THE 'GAY-BOMB' REQUT

IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”

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.

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. 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.

AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY

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. After readg about the theoretil gay bomb, check out the super real Bat Bomb.

The US ary vtigated buildg a "gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irristible" to each other, ernment papers say.

GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY

The plan for a so-lled "love bomb" envisaged an aphrodisiac chemil that would provoke wispread homosexual behavur among troops, g what the ary lled a "distasteful but pletely non-lethal" blow to morale. 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.

I remember the Gay Bomb story, havg vered New Scientist a uple of years ago -- -- right after Noah ma his ial report -- and beg amed by the subsequent media tert. And granted, the "Gay Bomb" never received any feral fundg.

THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB

*We know about the "Gay Bomb" bee of the Sunshe Project's work – and bee was bizarre and tchy enough to get the media's attentn. Do gay uns really have bad disciple? Air Force, produced a three page proposal for a “gay bomb” Byrne on New Tech and AI | Gizmodo InterviewOffEnglishDocumentatn 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.

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

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. ” 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.

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.

GAY HISTORY: THE U.S. MILARY’S PROPOSED “GAY” BOMB

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. 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.

GAY BOMB

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

GAY BOMB

Amid Fears of Homosexual Disptn, A US Air Force Lab Proposed The 'Harassg, Annoyg and "Bad Guy" Intifyg Chemils Project'.

THE US MILARY ONCE CONSIRED MAKG A ‘GAY BOMB’

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.

DEPARTMENT OF WEIRD WEAPONS: THE 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. As huiatg as may be to the DOD, the award proved an appropriate fal chapter to the proposal for the homosexual cendiary vice.

The geni group that unvered everythg om the Gay Bomb to superacids to pa ray tts to blab shenanigans is shutterg s doors. Ary proposal to create a hormone bomb that uld purportedly turn enemy soldiers to homosexuals and make them more terted sex than fightg.

THE MYSTER SE OF THE 'GAY-BOMB' REQUT

5 ln to velop a so-lled “gay-bomb. ” If pleted, the bomb would release a chemil aphrodisiac “and by virtue of eher breathg or havg their sk exposed to this chemil… soldiers would bee gay.

” In addn to a “gay bomb” the proposal also mentns g chemils which uld make be angry so that enemy forc would be attacked not only by our troops but also swarms of stgg sects. Defense Department officials have acknowledged that such ias were proposed by the Air Force , much like the media’s verage of this story, the origal “gay bomb” ia may have been proposed, dismissed and then rurrected by a different branch of the ary ( media terms, thk prt to blog to TV). Now the gay and lbian muni, which are already spic of the U.

Leave asi the “Kids In The Hall” absurdy of “attack be” and “gay bombs. 5 ln for a project that assum a) sexual orientatn n be altered through chemils and b) homosexuals are more terted sex than duty is certaly worthy of a send life the blogosphere. Ary of a bomb pable of lerally turng soldiers gay.