Milary ws Ig Nobel peace prize for 'gay bomb' | New Scientist

Contents:

• IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”
• THE U.S. MILARY'S IDTIC IA FOR A GAY BOMB
• AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY
• MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
• GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY
• THE US MILARY ONCE ACTIVELY PROPOSED A $7.5 MILLN 'GAY BOMB'
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• 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 U.S. MILARY'S IDTIC IA FOR A 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. 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.

AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY

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.

MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'

The gay 1994, the Wright Laboratory—part of the U. 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. 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. 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.

GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY

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

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.

THE US MILARY ONCE ACTIVELY PROPOSED A $7.5 MILLN '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.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

The US Milary Feared Homosexualy For Years. By the mid-20th century, homosexualy had e to be viewed as a mental fect. Amid Fears of Homosexual Disptn, A US Air Force Lab Proposed The 'Harassg, Annoyg and "Bad Guy" Intifyg Chemils Project'.

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. 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.