Americans planned "gay bomb"

[AngryOldDem]

This has to be one of the more bizarre stories I have read. This was in my local paper (because the Air Force base where the memo originated is nearby) with a link to the London Daily Mail.

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The Americans were considering developing chemical weapons that made enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to one another, newly declassified documents reveal.

Boffins at the Pentagon were plotting the development of an 'aphrodisiac' weapon, which they hoped would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour between troops - resulting in a 'distasteful, but completely non-lethal' blow to morale.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=334174&in_page_id=1770


Here's the local story, complete with the memorandum outlining the development of chemical weapons "to harass, annoy or identify enemy fighters without killing them."

http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/0115gaybomb.html

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The Defense Department in the early 1990s "received literally hundreds of proposals for different (nonlethal weapon) systems, and admittedly some of them are rather nontraditional," McSweeney said.

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He then went on to assure us all that such weapons do not exist, and that the Air Force Research Lab is currently engaged in more gainful pursuits such as developing a nonlethal weapon that uses microwaves to inflict intense pain on the skin, which is hoped to be used to turn back advancing troops or disburse crowds.

Get Smart could not come up with a goofier idea.

[complain jane]

1. apparently they've already come up with & detonated the

stupid Bush-voting-drone making bomb right here in the middle of the US

[oneighty]

2. Non-lethal blow?

But what about family values?

sigh

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