“Gay bombs: explodg, remappg topologi of queerns” prented by Blas – ISEA Symposium Archiv

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AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY

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. This movie explored the story of Hiroshima om the perspective of Enola Gay pilot Pl Tibbets (played by Robert Taylor).

“GAY BOMBS: EXPLODG, REMAPPG TOPOLOGI OF QUEERNS” PRENTED BY BLAS

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. That’s when an Amerin B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” dropped the atomic bomb on the Japane Cy of Hiroshima.

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.

If memory serv, even the nam Enola Gay – the fighter plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, and Ltle Boy and Fat Man – the nam of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, rpectively, are not mentned the film, and maybe 's not a cince. Gay bombs: explodg, remappg topologi of queerns.

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