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• IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”
• THE USA’S INFAMO ‘GAY BOMB’
• AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY
• MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
• THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB
• “GAY BOMBS: EXPLODG, REMAPPG TOPOLOGI OF QUEERNS” PRENTED BY BLAS
• THE GAY BOMB: A REAL THG THE US MILARY CONSIRED
• GAY BOMB
• THE U.S. MILARY'S IDTIC IA FOR A GAY BOMB
• THE US MILARY ONCE CONSIRED MAKG A ‘GAY BOMB’
• PENTAGON NFIRMS 'GAY' BOMB PLAN
• THE US MILARY ONCE ACTIVELY PROPOSED A $7.5 MILLN 'GAY BOMB'
• EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY
• SMHSONIAN SUBSTANTIALLY ALTERS ENOLA GAY EXHIB AFTER CRICISM
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• IN 1994 THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “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. 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.

THE USA’S INFAMO ‘GAY BOMB’

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.

AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY

The gay bomb certaly fs the bill for that one.

MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'

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

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

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.

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

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: A REAL THG THE US MILARY CONSIRED

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. 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. And th the "gay bomb" was born.

GAY BOMB

"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 U.S. MILARY'S IDTIC IA FOR A GAY 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”.

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. 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.

THE US MILARY ONCE CONSIRED MAKG A ‘GAY BOMB’

” 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”.

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).

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 NFIRMS 'GAY' BOMB PLAN

Gay bombs: explodg, remappg topologi of queerns. ’ This news brief publicly announced US Air Force rearch on the now supposedly funct velopment of a ‘gay bomb. ’ Proposed 1994 at the Wright Laboratory Dayton, Oh, the gay bomb is fed as an aphrodisiac chemil that ‘would make enemy soldiers “sexually irristible” to each other.

’ Ined, the gay bomb, which was signed to be a six-year velopment project stg $7.

THE US MILARY ONCE ACTIVELY PROPOSED A $7.5 MILLN 'GAY BOMB'

5 ln, ‘would provoke wispread homosexual behavur among troops, g what the ary lled a “distasteful but pletely non-lethal” blow to morale. ’ That the gay bomb would explo to immoraly, tonatg a public shamg upon s victims, pre-suppos rampant homophobia, for the act of homosexual sex and of self do not promise feat or surrenr. Yet, given the US ary’s nflatn of gay (here, fed as homosexual sex) wh weapon, seems that the ary ponred war not love.

EXHIBG THE ENOLA GAY

In 1994, weapon velopers pched a "gay bomb" to the Uned Stat ary. " It was supposed to turn s victims homosexual, the assumptn beg that enemy soldiers' new and stantaneo attractn to one another would superse the importance of even the most heated battle. You know those gays -- when any two meet, at any time, unr any circumstanc, they stantly start humpg, even if they're currently beg shot at.

SMHSONIAN SUBSTANTIALLY ALTERS ENOLA GAY EXHIB AFTER CRICISM

The tle of the document proposg the "gay bomb, " amongst other thgs? 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.

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

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. 30 Rock, a s which featured a workg gay bomb the episo Cooter.

IN 1994 THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”

Brickleberry, a s whose sixth episo Gay Bomb volv a gay bomb. "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".