The US Milary's 'Gay Bomb' Ia Was A Ser Proposal

Contents:

• IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”
• MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
• THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB
• A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER
• THE US MILARY ONCE ACTIVELY PROPOSED A $7.5 MILLN 'GAY BOMB'
• MILARY PROPOSED "GAY BOMB"
• THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC 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.

MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'

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

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A GAY SOLDIER’S STORY OF VIETNAM AND AFTER

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” Tgle on the Genis of Camp Damasc | 9 InterviewOffEnglishDocumentatn obtaed by the Sunshe Project, an anti-blogil weapons non-ernmental anizatn, found that the Oh-based Wright Lab requted a 6 year, $7.

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. ” 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.

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

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.

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MILARY PROPOSED "GAY BOMB"

Larry Sanrs wr about servg the army, where he uld have been arrted for beg gay durg a very unpopular war. The day Larry Sanrs registered for the draft, one qutn buried the middle of a long qutnnaire smacked him the face: “Do you intify as a homosexual or ever had sexual feelgs for persons of the same sex? At the time Sanrs registered for the draft 1967, no one was clear about what happened to someone who admted beg gay.

THE CREW OF THE ENOLA GAY ON DROPPG THE ATOMIC BOMB

When I registered for the draft jt a few years later, I was told not to say I was gay, bee they would make you prove . How do someone not datg anyone “prove” they’re gay?

He didn’t really intify as homosexual. And as a gay soldier, he didn’t particularly relate to those who served wh him.