Military gay bomb
Pentagon rejected gay weapon proposal
The U.S. military rejected a 1994 proposal to evolve an "aphrodisiac" to spur homosexual activity among opponent troops but is difficult at work on other less-than-lethal weapons, defense officials said Sunday.
The idea of fostering homosexuality among the enemy figured in a declassified six-year, $7.5 million request from a laboratory at Wright Patterson Atmosphere Force Base in Ohio for funding of non-lethal chemical weapon research.
The suggestion, disclosed in response to a Freedom of Communication request, called for developing chemicals affecting human habit "so that discipline and morale in enemy units is adversely affected."
"One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior," said the document, obtained by the Sunshine Plan. The watchdog group posted the partly blacked-out, three-page document on its Web site.
Lt. Col. Barry Venable of the Army, a Defense Department spokesman, said: "This suggestion arose essentially from a brainstorming session, and it was rejected out of hand."
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This year the Pentagon will spend $78 billion — about half of all government research and development dollars — on a variety of projects, according to the American Association for the Advancement for Science (AAAS).
The immense majority - about $68 billion - goes to traditional spending, like weapons development and space systems. But some fringe analyze mimics the best of science fiction.
There seems to be no failure of imagination in advancing warfare, but some experts horror these farfetched projects display a little too much imagination.
Just this month, the government confirmed that an Ohio Air Force laboratory had asked for $7.5 million to build a nonlethal "gay bomb," a weapon that would inspire enemies to make passion, not war. The weapon would use strong aphrodisiacs to make enemy troops so sexually attracted to each other that they'd lose interest in fighting.
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Abstract
On January 15, 2005, BBC News’ website featured an article entitled ‘US military pondered love not war.’ This news little publicly announced US Gas Force research on the now supposedly defunct maturation of a ‘gay bomb.’ Proposed in 1994 at the Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, the homosexual bomb is defined as an aphrodisiac chemical that ‘would make enemy soldiers “sexually irresistible” to each other.’ Indeed, the queer bomb, which was engineered to be a six-year development project costing $7.5 million, ‘would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among troops, causing what the military called a “distasteful but completely non-lethal” blow to morale.’ That the queer bomb would explode into immorality, detonating a common shaming upon its victims, pre-supposes rampant homophobia, for the act of gay sex in and of itself does not assure defeat or surrender. Yet, given the US military’s conflation of gay (here, defined as homosexual sex) with weapon, it seems that the military pondered war not love. Indeed, the image chosen to accompany this text of a military aircraft dropping a m
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