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Oct 24 2007, 11:03 PM
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"Gay bomb" is an informal name for a theoretical non-lethal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-lethal) chemical weapon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_weapon), which a United States Air Force (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force) research laboratory speculated about producing.
In 1994 the Wright Laboratory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright-Patterson_Air_Force_Base) in Ohio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio) produced a three-page proposal of a variety of possible nonlethal chemical weapons, which was later obtained—complete with marginal jottings and typos—by the Sunshine Project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Project) through a Freedom of Information Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act) request.
In one sentence of the document it was suggested that a strong aphrodisiac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodisiac) could be dropped on enemy troops, ideally one which would also cause "homosexual behavior". The aphrodisiac weapon was described as "distasteful but completely non-lethal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-lethal)". In its "New Discoveries Needed" section, the document implicitly acknowledges that no such chemicals are actually known. The document also included many other off-beat ideas, such as spraying enemy troops with bee pheromones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee_pheromones) and then hiding numerous beehives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive_%28beekeeping%29) in the combat area.
Wright Laboratory won the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize) for "instigating research & development on a chemical weapon—the so-called 'gay bomb'—that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other."[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb#_note-0) However, Air Force personnel contacted were not willing to attend the award ceremony at Harvard University's Sanders Theater to accept the award in person.
Haha, I'd rather be hit by a real bomb.
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"Gay bomb" is an informal name for a theoretical non-lethal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-lethal) chemical weapon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_weapon), which a United States Air Force (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force) research laboratory speculated about producing.
In 1994 the Wright Laboratory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright-Patterson_Air_Force_Base) in Ohio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio) produced a three-page proposal of a variety of possible nonlethal chemical weapons, which was later obtained—complete with marginal jottings and typos—by the Sunshine Project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Project) through a Freedom of Information Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act) request.
In one sentence of the document it was suggested that a strong aphrodisiac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodisiac) could be dropped on enemy troops, ideally one which would also cause "homosexual behavior". The aphrodisiac weapon was described as "distasteful but completely non-lethal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-lethal)". In its "New Discoveries Needed" section, the document implicitly acknowledges that no such chemicals are actually known. The document also included many other off-beat ideas, such as spraying enemy troops with bee pheromones (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_bee_pheromones) and then hiding numerous beehives (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive_%28beekeeping%29) in the combat area.
Wright Laboratory won the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize) for "instigating research & development on a chemical weapon—the so-called 'gay bomb'—that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other."[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb#_note-0) However, Air Force personnel contacted were not willing to attend the award ceremony at Harvard University's Sanders Theater to accept the award in person.
Haha, I'd rather be hit by a real bomb.