US military wanted 'sex bomb'
By Milanda Rout
January 14, 2005
A "SEX bomb" that would make enemy soldiers irresistible to each other was considered by the US military.
Declassified documents reveal the Pentagon toyed with the idea of an aphrodisiac chemical weapon in 1994.
The gas would have made enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. The weapon's developers said homosexual behaviour among troops would deal a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale.
The plans, unearthed from a US air force laboratory in Ohio, were published in New Scientist magazine.
Pentagon reveals rejected chemical weapons
15 January 2005
THE Pentagon considered developing a host of non-lethal chemical weapons that would disrupt discipline and morale among enemy troops, newly declassified documents reveal.
Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says.
Other ideas included chemical weapons that attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats to troop positions, making them uninhabitable. Another was to develop a chemical that caused "severe and lasting halitosis", making it easy to identify guerrillas trying to blend in with civilians. There was also the idea of making troops' skin unbearably sensitive to sunlight.
The proposals, from the US Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, date from 1994. The lab sought Pentagon funding for research into what it called "harassing, annoying and 'bad guy'-identifying chemicals". The plans have been posted online by the Sunshine Project, an organisation that exposes research into chemical and biological weapons.
Spokesman Edward Hammond says it was not known if the proposed $7.5 million, six-year research plan was ever pursued.
"On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics." -Richard Feynman
Sounds like a bunch of stupid pork barrel shit projects to me rather than real possibilities.
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I'm studying for the CPA exam. Have a nice summer, and if you're down just sit back and realize that Joe is off somewhere, doing much worse than you are.
Oh phooey. Thought this would be about Homing Endonuclear Genes (HEGs) which when introduced to a species, pretty much make the species extinct self-replicating selfishly and producing unstable 3rd generation offspring that promptly die.
This sounds silly at least. It may work! Then we could remotely teleport it with our minds and make the enemy soldiers screw eachother. This would, of course, be used for a new series of candid camera moments.
Where the hell do they get these ideas in the US,in the 1960s the CIA thought about silly ways to kill Castro,which none ever work or applied....now this,what is the IQ requirement for a job in US military or secret service?
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*totally and completely ripped off the NewsRadio this morning while I was waiting for a weather report*
This was quite real. They tested it on San Francisco and Key West successfully.
"How can I wait unknowing?
This is the price of war,
We rise with noble intentions,
And we risk all that is pure..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, Forever (Rome: Total War)
"On and on, through the years,
The war continues on..." - Angela & Jeff van Dyck, We Are All One (Medieval 2: Total War)
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"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain." - Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
The US military also considered building ICBM silos secretly inside other nations territory. When it comes to mere paper proposals, anything can get an official Pentagon stamp on it. It doesn't mean more then whoever typed the page up thought it might work though.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Sea Skimmer wrote:The US military also considered building ICBM silos secretly inside other nations territory. When it comes to mere paper proposals, anything can get an official Pentagon stamp on it. It doesn't mean more then whoever typed the page up thought it might work though.
Still, the proposals appeal to the James Bond villain inside all of us.
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