The gay bomb

The IG Nobel Prizes are known for spotlighting research that "first makes you laugh, then makes you think. The US military investigated building a "gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each bomb, government papers say.

The plans were for a six-year. Founded in by Marc Abrahams, editor and co-founder of the Annals of Improbable Research, the IG Nobel Prizes were originally intended to highlight work that "cannot, or should not, be reproduced. Did you know the U.S.

Air Force once proposed a bizarre weapon nicknamed the “Gay Bomb”? A bomb that would drop a mixture of chemicals on the enemy and literally make them fall in love with one another to distract them from their wartime duties seems like such an impossible, far-fetched, ludicrous.

The "gay bomb" proposal has since earned its place in the annals of bizarre military history, standing out as one of the most outlandish and controversial ideas ever to emerge from a weapons research program. The proposal, believed to have originated at the Wright Laboratory inwas part of a wider weapons development program that, perhaps unsurprisingly, was eventually abandoned.

According to documents obtained by the Sunshine Project, an organization opposed to biological weapons, the concept was indeed being considered seriously at the time. September 25, Interesting. The United States Air Force once conceived of an audacious plan for a ‘gay bomb’ that would deploy chemical aphrodisiacs to render enemy soldiers irresistibly attracted to one another, causing their units to crumble under the weight of internal distraction and conflict.

September 21, Interesting. While never developed or deployed, the concept continues to capture public imagination and serve as a gay example of how unconventional thinking in defense can sometimes veer into the surreal. September 23, Interesting.

The aim of the weapon was to disrupt enemy units by causing soldiers to become irresistibly attracted to one another, ultimately weakening cohesion and combat effectiveness. " Gay bomb " is an informal term referring to a proposed non-lethal psychochemical weapon that was speculated by the United States Air Force in the s.

The US defence department considered various non-lethal chemicals meant to disrupt enemy discipline and morale. 💣🌈 This strange idea from the s involved chemicals designed to make enemy soldiers attracted. The concept of a “gay bomb” sounds like something out of a bad science fiction movie.

The concept has since been widely ridiculed. September 20, Interesting. Other weapons that never saw the light of day include one to the soldiers obvious by their bad breath. This bizarre proposal was part of a six-year non-lethal weapons development project that spanned from to and.

The concept involved dispersing sex pheromones to induce mutual sexual attraction among enemy soldiers, with the intention of causing confusion and disrupting military cohesion. Interestingly, the scientists involved in the so-called "gay bomb" concept were recognized in with an IG Nobel Prize, a satirical award that honors quirky, unconventional, or downright absurd scientific achievements.

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