Gay Bomb: Story Behd The Story | WIRED

Contents:

• IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”
• SCIENTISTS VELOPED 'GAY BOMB' TO MAKE ENEMY SOLDIERS STOP FIGHTG AND MAKE LOVE
• GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY
• THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB
• PENTAGON NFIRMS 'GAY' BOMB PLAN
• PENTAGON REJECTS GAY BOMB TECHNOLOGY
• THE USA’S INFAMO ‘GAY BOMB’
• THE US MILARY ONCE CONSIRED MAKG A ‘GAY BOMB’
• AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY
• GAY BOMB
• A GAY BOMB? 5 UNBELIEVABLE PENTAGON SCHEM
• FRGE SCIENCE YIELDS 'GAY BOMBS' AND PSYCHIC TELEPORTATN
• MILARY PROPOSED "GAY BOMB"

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.

SCIENTISTS VELOPED 'GAY BOMB' TO MAKE ENEMY SOLDIERS STOP FIGHTG AND MAKE LOVE

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.

GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY

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.

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. "All's fair love and war, " the old proverb one group of ary scientists certaly took the statement to heart when they signed a "gay bomb" to make enemy soldiers irristible to each other. 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.

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

And granted, the "Gay Bomb" never received any feral fundg. *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.

PENTAGON NFIRMS 'GAY' BOMB PLAN

Do gay uns really have bad disciple?

Air Force, produced a three page proposal for a “gay bomb”. 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.

PENTAGON REJECTS GAY BOMB TECHNOLOGY

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.

THE USA’S INFAMO ‘GAY BOMB’

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”.

THE US MILARY ONCE CONSIRED MAKG A ‘GAY BOMB’

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).

AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY

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.

Pentagon - Killed 1994 plan to make - 'gay' love bomb. The US Air Force has nfirmed a 1994 plan to drop a non-lethal 'gay' love bomb on enemy troops. 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.

GAY BOMB

GAY BOMB. I envisn our enemi paralyzed before our amassed armi a reverie of homoerotic butt humpg. Ary proposal to create a hormone bomb that uld purportedly turn enemy soldiers to homosexuals and make them more terted sex than fightg.

Pentagon officials on Friday nfirmed to CBS 5 that ary lears had nsired, and then subsquently rejected, buildg the so-lled "Gay Bomb. Two: I'd prefer to see our enemi fall to a reverie of gay love than blow them to small bs. "Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb' [CBS].

The 1994 project that sought to weaponise fabulonsPhoto by Brett Sayl om PexelsThe US ary has a long and storied history wh homosexualy. The earlit exampl of someone beg expelled om the ary for homosexual behavur e om Febary 1778. He was expelled om the Contental Army by orr of none other than Gee Washgton ’s no surprise to fd rampant homophobia even at the natn’s ceptn, beg gay was not actually a crime the US ary until much later than many would assume.

A GAY BOMB? 5 UNBELIEVABLE PENTAGON SCHEM

While plenty of men were dishonourably discharged for beg gay throughout the 19th century, wouldn’t be until 1916 that ‘asslt wh the tent to m sodomy’ was listed as a crime. In 1920, this would be revised to any homosexual punishment for homosexual behavur was up to five years ary prison, the forfe of all pay and allowanc, and a dishonourable discharge, which n and of self lead to difficulti securg work, ary benefs, and even a WW1 homosexual acts were illegal unr martial law, but there was no outright ban on beg gay exactly.

That all changed 1982 and simply beg gay the ary was illegal. As the Department of Defence stated: ‘homosexualy was patible wh ary service’. While beg gay was no longer illegal, tellg people you were gay, aternisatn and homosexual behavur would all get you dishonourably discharged.

1994 & Weaponisg FabulonsDon’t Ask Don’t Tell — Milary guidance posterDurg shortag of personnel, pecially WW2, the US ary would relax s screeng procs, allowg gay people back to ary service, but only for a time. In 1994, an Air Force laboratory submted a three-page proposal to velop a hormone bomb that would turn enemy soldiers to homosexuals. "The Oh Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be veloped 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, " reported Edward Hammond of bweapon activist group the Sunshe Project.

FRGE SCIENCE YIELDS 'GAY BOMBS' AND PSYCHIC TELEPORTATN

Asi om the "gay bomb, " the laboratory also clud siarly qutnable ias, such as bad breath bombs, flatulence bombs and bombs signed to attract stgg sects. This short vio monstrat how the 'gay bomb' would work real-life:.

turn them gay and enurage unntrolled sexual activy. chemil, enemy soldiers would be so by makg love mass gay.

that the "gay bomb" proposal was quickly dismissed. 5 ln to velop the "gay bomb" as part.

MILARY PROPOSED "GAY BOMB"

proposal, sists that the "gay bomb" ia was taken more serly. nsir, " he ia that makg soldiers gay would prevent them om dog. their job is nsistent wh the US policy of forbiddg openly gay.

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.