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• 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
• THE USA’S INFAMO ‘GAY BOMB’
• AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY
• GAY BOMB
• MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
• THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• ENOLA GAY
• THE U.S. MILARY'S IDTIC IA FOR A GAY BOMB
• GAY BOMB AND BMJ THORS W PRIZ
• MILARY PROPOSED "GAY BOMB"
• THE US MILARY ONCE CONSIRED MAKG A ‘GAY BOMB’
• FRGE SCIENCE YIELDS 'GAY BOMBS' AND PSYCHIC TELEPORTATN
• THE ENOLA GAY DROPS THE 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.

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

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. 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 USA’S INFAMO ‘GAY BOMB’

The gay bomb certaly fs the bill for that one.

AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY

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

GAY 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.

MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR '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. 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.

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

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.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

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.

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.

ENOLA GAY

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 female sex pheromon over enemy forc orr to make them sexually attracted to each other. Usg a bra imagg technique, Swedish rearchers have shown that homosexual and heterosexual mal' bras rpond differently to two odors that may be volved sexual aroal, and that the homosexual men rpond the same way as heterosexual women, though uld not be termed whether this was e or effect.

[catn need] The study was expand to clu homosexual women; the rults were nsistent wh prev fdgs meang that homosexual women were not as rponsive to male intified odors, while their rponse to female cu was siar to that of heterosexual mal. In both of the documents, the possibily was nvassed that a strong aphrodisiac uld be dropped on enemy troops, ially one which would also e "homosexual behavr". Wright Laboratory won the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for "stigatg rearch & velopment on a chemil weapon—the so-lled 'gay bomb' / 'poof bomb' —that will make enemy soldiers bee sexually irristible to each other.

THE U.S. MILARY'S IDTIC IA FOR A GAY BOMB

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GAY BOMB AND BMJ THORS W PRIZ

"Gay Men are found to have Different Scent of Attractn.

"Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'". "Pentagon once mulled 'gay bomb' to promote love not war". "The Gay bomb", Michael Smh, The Telegraph, 15 January 2005.

"Gay Bomb, For Real". Gay Charlton: A Charlton Cy Paper Blog. "The Air Forc' Gay Weapon".

MILARY PROPOSED "GAY BOMB"

"Jonathan Kay on the Pentagon's plan to build a 'gay bomb': Why is this 2005 story news aga?

THE US MILARY ONCE CONSIRED MAKG A ‘GAY BOMB’

"The Gay Bomb, wh parody diagram".

FRGE SCIENCE YIELDS 'GAY BOMBS' AND PSYCHIC TELEPORTATN

Gay Bomb. US ary planned 'gay bomb'. Air force looked at spray to turn enemy gay.

Air Force Consired Gay 'Love Bomb' Agast Enemi. US Milary "Gay Bomb" Vio. Gay bomb plan by US.

THE ENOLA GAY DROPS THE BOMB

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.

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