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. It’s wikipedia and even has s own web se ("Make Love Not War.") The media redisvered this week, […]
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- IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”
- AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY
- MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
- THE U.S. MILARY'S IDTIC IA FOR A GAY BOMB
- THE USA’S INFAMO ‘GAY BOMB’
- GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY
- THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB
- GAY BOMB
- THE GAY BOMB LIV!
- GAY BOMB AND BMJ THORS W PRIZ
- ENOLA GAY
IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”
The ia of a gay bomb me om a sire to bilate enemi but not necsarily kill them. The proposed bomb would nta strong aphrodisiacs and make soldiers "sexually irristible" to each other. * gay bomb philosophy *
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.
AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY
* gay bomb philosophy *
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.
MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
This article is about the chemil weapon. For the war photograph, see Fag bomb. The "halosis bomb" and "gay bomb" are rmal nam for two theoretil non-lethal chemil weapons that a Uned Stat Air Force rearch laboratory speculated about producg; the theori volve dischargg... * gay bomb philosophy *
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. And th the "gay bomb" was born.
THE U.S. MILARY'S IDTIC IA FOR A GAY BOMB
The "gay bomb" — the famo nonlethal weapons ncept that was proposed by the Air Force Rearch Laboratory, but not fund — uld fally have some realy, at least science. It turns out that scientists thk they’ve disvered a way to turn u fli gay (and then to make then straight aga, too!). The […] * gay bomb philosophy *
"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.
THE USA’S INFAMO ‘GAY BOMB’
"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.
GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY
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 gay 1994, the Wright Laboratory—part of the U.
THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB
Ially, the three-page proposal suggted, the affected soldiers would fd their brothers--arms “sexually irristible” (per the BBC) and, per Fox News, noted that “[o]ne distasteful but pletely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, pecially if the chemil also ed homosexual behavr.
” The weapon lloquially took on the “gay bomb” moniker shortly after beg disvered by a ary spendg watchdog group via a Freedom of Informatn Act Laboratory (now funct, but not for the above) never received the fundg for further subscribe to Dan's daily email Now I Know, click here.
GAY BOMB
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. 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.
THE GAY BOMB LIV!
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’.
GAY BOMB AND BMJ THORS W PRIZ
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. 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. *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”. 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”.
ENOLA GAY
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.
” 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”.