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"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..."
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"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..."
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"Gay bomb" is an informal name for a theoretical non-lethal chemical weapon, which a United States Air Force research laboratory speculated about producing.
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Other weapons that never saw the light of day include one to make soldiers obvious by their bad breath.
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I remember the Gay Bomb story, having covered it in New Scientist a couple of years ago -- -- right after Noah made his initial report -- and being amused by the subsequent media interest. It's in wikipedia and even has its own web site ("Make Love Not War.")
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If completed, the bomb would release a chemical aphrodisiac "and by virtue of either breathing or having their skin exposed to this chemical... soldiers would become gay."
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