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US Air Force’s ‘Gay Bomb’ Plan: A Bizarre Non-Lethal Weapon Concept
In a peculiar episode of military history, the US Air Force once conceived plans for a so-called ‘gay bomb.’ This unconventional weapon, intended to utilize chemical aphrodisiacs, was designed to make enemy soldiers “irresistibly attractive to one another.” This strange initiative, developed by the military’s Wright Laboratory in 1994, was part of a broader six-year non-lethal weapons program funded with $7.5 million, which was ultimately discontinued. The proposal, though unconventional, reached the highest scientific review body in the nation, the National Academy of Sciences, raising eyebrows and sparking debate about the nature of non-lethal weaponry.
Details of the ‘Gay Bomb’ Proposal
A detailed three-page document, unearthed by the Sunshine Project – an organization dedicated to opposing biological weapons – sheds light on the