Members of the US Marine Corps Chemical and Biological Incident Response Force (AP)
Le Point magazine said that, in the 1990s, US Army engineers thought about designing a chemical bomb aimed at distributing substances that were supposed to make people homosexual. Once it was dropped, enemy soldiers would be sexually attracted to each other, so they would lose interest in the battle and become preoccupied with themselves.
The newspaper explained - in a report written by Joseph Le Cure - that this thinking about this weapon dates back to 1994 in Ohio when the Wright Laboratory, which includes hundreds of engineers, took responsibility for designing, developing and integrating technologies for the US Air Force, where the “gay bomb” project was conceived. ".
A powerful love potion
The document, which talked about this weapon, was titled: “Irritating Chemicals to Identify and Harass a Bad Person,” and the laboratory requested $7.5 million to develop this weapon.
“An unpleasant, but non-lethal, example might be strong stimulants, especially if the chemical also causes homosexual behavior,” the lab engineers explain. The goal is to develop a kind of powerful love potion.
In the project, two other classes of bombs were proposed, one of which aims to attract "harmful creatures (angry rats) to the enemy's location" and make it uninhabitable, while the other innovation introduces "chemical products that leave large scars on humans but are non-lethal."
The Sunshine Project, a non-governmental organization that fights the misuse of military biotechnology, says that the Pentagon “submitted the proposal to the nation’s highest scientific review body for consideration,” and indeed the proposal was submitted to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002.
The Pentagon acknowledged reviewing the project, issuing a statement saying, "The Department of Defense is committed to identifying, researching, and developing non-lethal weapons that will support our men and women in service," but the project ultimately never saw the light of day.
The newspaper pointed out that, because of this innovation, the Wright Laboratory only won the Ig Nobel Prize in 2007, which is considered the opposite of the regular Nobel Prize and is also known as the “Nobel Prize for the Ignorant” or the “Nobel Prize for Scientific Idiocy,” which is held annually in an atmosphere of ridicule and sarcasm.
But the anger prompted the creators of the "gay bomb" not to attend the awards ceremony that year, in which three other researchers also won: Brian Whitcomb and Dan Mayer, who received an award for studying the side effects of swallowing a sword, and Mayo Yamamoto, who received an award for extracting vanilla flavor from feces. Cows.
Source: Le Point