U.S. tried to develop "gay bomb"

**Cowdisease** · 15 Jan 2005, 05:44 PM

The intro of this BBC article says it all.

Originally Posted by bbc.com

The US military investigated building a "gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each other, government papers say.

A little more info

Originally Posted by bbc.com

The plan for a so-called "love bomb" envisaged an aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among troops, causing what the military called a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale.

Oh, but it gets better. . .

Originally Posted by bbc.com

researchers pondered a "Who? Me?" bomb, which would simulate flatulence in enemy ranks.

Indeed, a "Who? Me?" device had been under consideration since 1945, the government papers say.

However, researchers concluded that the premise for such a device was fatally flawed because "people in many areas of the world do not find faecal odour offensive, since they smell it on a regular basis".

**ChaoofNee** · 15 Jan 2005, 05:47 PM

I'd love to see my tax dollars developing stuff like that. Awesome.
Come to think of it, it'd also shut some hippies up, too! "Make love, not war!" turns into "Make love at war!"

Giltch · 15 Jan 2005, 05:50 PM

It'll never happen.

**Bacon McShig** · 15 Jan 2005, 05:53 PM

Guess they figured it made the whole brouhaha about gays in the military a little hypocritical.

**frostwolf ex** · 15 Jan 2005, 05:57 PM

In tonights news, the american troops are taking heavy casualties, doctors say troops coming in conditions from "critical" to "Fabulous"

dusty springfield clone made military dictator for life.

**Dolemite** · 15 Jan 2005, 05:58 PM

Someone set us up the bomb.

**Bacon McShig** · 15 Jan 2005, 06:47 PM

Shouldn't that be "Thomeone thet uth up the bomb?"

**Calliander** · 15 Jan 2005, 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by frostwolf ex

In tonights news, the american troops are taking heavy casualties, doctors say troops coming in conditions from "critical" to "Fabulous"

dusty springfield clone made military dictator for life.

Best post of this thread.