Le Point: The United States explored the idea of making a bomb that would turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals
Le Point newspaper has reported that, in the 1990s, US Army engineers thought of developing a chemical bomb aimed at releasing a substance that would make people gay and interact against nature.
After being detonated, the bomb would cause the enemy forces to be sexually attracted to their fellow soldiers and engage in those dirty activities instead of focusing on war and fighting.
The newspaper explained in its report that the idea and development of the bomb was given in 1994 in Ohio when the Wright Laboratory, which includes hundreds of engineers, took on the responsibility of designing, developing and integrating technology for the US Air Force, where the project of "Gay Bomb" was discussed."
Reports say, the laboratory asked for 7.5 million dollars to make the weapon.
Wright Lab engineers explain that: The goal was to develop a type of drug with strong sexual arousal.
In that project, the idea of creating two other types of bombs was proposed; one aimed at attracting "nasty creatures like (angry rats) to enemy territory" and making it uninhabitable, while the other is a chemical bomb that causes severe scarring to humans but does not kill."
The Sunshine Project, a non-governmental organization that fights against the misuse of military technology, says that the Pentagon "submitted the proposal to the highest scientific review body in the United States for discussion". It said the proposal was submitted to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002.
The newspaper said that, because of this discovery, Wright Laboratory scientists were awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in 2007, which is recognized as the opposite of the regular Nobel Prize, and is also known as the "Nobel Prize for Idiots" or the "Prize of the Nobel Prize for Scientific Ignorance."
