Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'

[Fidel]

Sick Bastards at the Pentagon:

 

ELEY 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 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."

 

The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon.

 

"The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another," Hammond said after reviwing the documents.

 

"The notion was that a chemical that would probably be pleasant in the human body in low quantities could be identified, and by virtue of either breathing or having their skin exposed to this chemical, the notion was that soliders would become gay," explained Hammond.

 

The Pentagon told CBS 5 that the proposal was made by the Air Force in 1994.

 

"The Department of Defense is committed to identifying, researching and developing non-lethal weapons that will support our men and women in uniform," said a DOD spokesperson, who indicated that the "gay bomb" idea was quickly dismissed.

 

However, Hammond said the government records he obtained suggest the military gave the plan much stronger consideration than it has acknowledged.

 

"The truth of the matter is it would have never come to my attention if it was dismissed at the time it was proposed," he said. "In fact, the Pentagon has used it repeatedly and subsequently in an effort to promote non-lethal weapons, and in fact they submitted it to the highest scientific review body in the country for them to consider."

 

Military officials insisted Friday to CBS 5 that they are not currently working on any such idea and that the past plan was abandoned.

 

Gay community leaders in California said Friday that they found the notion of a "gay bomb" both offensive and almost laughable at the same time.

 

"Throughout history we have had so many brave men and women who are gay and lesbian serving the military with distinction," said Geoff Kors of Equality California. "So, it's just offensive that they think by turning people gay that the other military would be incapable of doing their job. And its absurd because there's so much medical data that shows that sexual orientation is immutable and cannot be changed."

 

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[Ckrisg]

Would'nt work it never stopped the Royal Navy

[Flashermac]

Or the Spartans.

[OCgringo]

was it tested in San Fransisco ? or West Hollywood ?

 

It sounds more like a story on "The Simpsons"

 

OC

 

[Steve]

That's old technology. It was dropped on the French army decades ago.

[Guest lazyphil]

CS, LMFAO!!!!!!....awesome idea anyway :thumbup:

[Steve]

The 'Skunk Works' and other highly classified (but since we know it can it really be classified?) and other programs have been coming up with all kinds of new weapons or trying to build new weapons for decades. The USSR was doing the same as well.

Remember the 'neutron bomb' during the Carter years? Supposedly, it wipes out a city of its inhabitants but leaves the buildings standing. The stealth plane was born out of such programs. There are all kinds of things we have not heard about that are in the works. I recall rumors of chemical weapons that are straight out of a science fiction movie. Most countries are just trying to catch up to decades old weapons the west has. Nukes have been around for a while and that club has a very small membership.

[OCgringo]

The Skunk works , Cia , MI-5 all worked on these type of things ,

 

And I am sure the Russians and Chinese were also,

 

Plus even if they are not working on it, they must think of an antidote if the other guys have it,

 

so anything you could ever think of was probably reviewed ,

 

the Neutron Bomb was an interesting one , it was OK to have bombs that would kill everyone and make the area off limits for years,

But make a bomb that will only kill everyone and people get upset,

I guess taking their stuff was just the last straw after killing them all off , and that was going too far !

 

OC

 

[Steve]

The other 'crazy' thing is how these budgets are approved for. Some General or dept. of defense secretary will litterally tell the congressional subcommitte some vague outline and get approved for tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. The congressmen don't really have an idea of what they are approving. Sometimes its part of a defense budget plan that is not specified for 'national security' reasons. My older brother was in the Navy and has fairly good clearance (its how he got jobs in the private sector with defense contractors) and we were all watching Bourne Identity and the scene where the CIA lobbies congress for money, he would laugh and say 'you all have no idea the black hole that money goes in with almost no accountability'.

[bibblies]

Did anyone else read the headline and imagine a big pink bomb with nice dress sense, fond of creeping up to other bombs and bumming them?