A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.
Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently (sic) rejected, building the so-called “Gay Bomb.”
Edward Hammond, of Berkeley’s Sunshine Project, had used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the proposal from the Air Force’s Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio.
As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, “One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior.”
Not surprisingly, this was a USAF initiative.
I mean, it can get lonely out there on the alert pad. Is what I’ve heard.
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AW1 Tim
// Jun 10, 2007 at 8:44 am
Cap’n,
There was a joke going around during the Reagan years about some prankster’s at the CIA. They had this gag idea they’d haul out to present to unwary visiting dignitaries.
They had this cunning plan to demoralize the Soviets. Seems they wanted to make up millions of X-large sized condoms and include them in relief supplies sent to Warsaw-Pact countries, etc, and have each of the wrappers marked “made in USA: size small”…..
Heh
Respects,
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Casca
// Jun 10, 2007 at 8:49 am
I wonder who thought that one up. Ooops, that’s right. Don’t ask. Don’t tell.
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SJBill
// Jun 10, 2007 at 9:18 am
If researchers have such control over hormones and their effects, it leads me to believe our adversaries have already developed and deployed a more fearsome weapon — the PMS bomb.
Lex, where do you dig up stuff like this?
-SJBill
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Deborah Aylward
// Jun 10, 2007 at 9:41 am
Allow me to preface this blurb with pointing out that I love America, I support America, and I stand beside America but…what is it with the loopy ideas that come out of California???
Theory: smog + heat + earthquakes = idiotic idea
Just sayin’.
Veritas et Fidelis Semper
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Buck
// Jun 10, 2007 at 9:54 am
Next comes the revelation that the Pentagon/CIA/Halliburton actually conducted covert tests in SFO…and they worked.
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Buck
// Jun 10, 2007 at 9:55 am
Oh, and by the way, Lex…your USAF snark was duly noted but ignored. Sorta.
7 Blogs of War // Jun 10, 2007 at 10:26 am
US Air Force Wright Laboratory’s Fabulous Gay Bomb…
I guess the Air Force’s war plan would have been to drop the Gay Bomb then let the PsyOps guys swoop in to broadcast episodes of Will & Grace while the Marines and Army mopped up a few hundred thousand distracted enemy soldiers. It’…
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badbob
// Jun 10, 2007 at 11:46 am
I heard they’ve been crop dusting that stuff up thar in Taxachusetts!
Beware!
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Marine6
// Jun 10, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Tim, I like your story. Of course, I first heard it credited to Winston Churchill in WWII.
It’s said that back in 1775 that the first Marine was recruited at Tun’s Tavern in Philadelphia and marched down to the waterfront where he boarded ship. The Recruiting Officer and his fifers and drummers returned to Tun’s Tavern looking for the next sucker (I mean outstanding prospect). Some time later they march down to the waterfront with the second recruit. He boards ship and asks Marine #1 what kind of an outfit is this? “Well, not too bad, but you should have been in the Old Corps.”
Marine6 Sends
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Tom G.
// Jun 10, 2007 at 1:55 pm
“Not surprisingly, this was a USAF initiative.”…shack…
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Nose
// Jun 10, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Undisclosed was the strike-fighter employment and delivery tactic known as “Three snaps and a Z twist.”
Anyone remember “The Nude Bomb”? Wouldn’t want to see these two employed together.
N
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Casca
// Jun 10, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Here’s the deal DA. We have lots of sunshine, leisure, and recreational drugs. What kind of ideas did you THINK were going to come out of this place? There was that personal computer invented in a garage thing too, but they were nerds.
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Deborah Aylward
// Jun 10, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Casca…am further north, but we have a major case of the whacky going on concerning both the Canadian and the U.S. Navy. We no longer have a Fleet Week in Toronto, albeit a scaled-down version, as some in government said that they felt “threatened” by both Navy’s presence. Never mind that school children loved the outings, and learned much, over the years and never mind that adults took pride in their presence.
Heat, leisure, and drugs in California…humidity, work-’til-you-drop, and drugs in Toronto. Makes it interesting for the everybody else!
Veritas et Fidelis Semper
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Justthisguy
// Jun 10, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Well, Casca, Woz is a nerd, but Jobs is, uhh, has been reputed to have some circular-muscle-like qualitie
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Justthisguy
// Jun 10, 2007 at 8:15 pm
s.
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Zane
// Jun 11, 2007 at 12:53 am
Ya know, our current muj enemies are pretty much playing hide the salami with each other most of the time, anyway. Unless we can get them to drop trou and go at it on cue, like say, at the sound of gunfire, I don’t think this weapon is going to help us.
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Daveg
// Jun 11, 2007 at 6:29 am
?¢‚Ǩ?ìNot surprisingly, this was a USAF initiative.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù
And apparently at least partially successfully tested on the Navy, at least so far as the movie Top Gun can be considered a documentary.
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Casca
// Jun 11, 2007 at 7:09 am
LMAO, Zane it took every ounce of restraint I have, not to go there. Like hauling coal to New Castle.
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EJ Smith
// Jun 11, 2007 at 7:44 am
Figures that it was the Air Force running all “Broke Back” on this.
What the hell were they thinking?
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The Boodge
// Jun 11, 2007 at 9:37 am
This sounds like a weapon the liberal left would love to get their hands on.
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FbL
// Jun 11, 2007 at 11:40 am
This story (which has been all over the Internet this weekend) sounded familiar to me, and I finally found the original reference. It’s a story from at least 2005.
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