The "gay bomb" is an informal term for a hypothetical non-lethal chemical weapon that the US Air Force speculated about in 1994. The idea was to release sex pheromones among enemy forces to make them sexually attracted to each other, causing confusion and panic. The military's plan was to:
Provoke homosexual behavior among troops
Cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale
Cause public shaming of its victims
The proposal came from the Air Force's Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio and was included in a CD-Rom produced by the US military in 2000. The documents show that $7.5 million was requested to develop the weapon, but the Pentagon did not deny that the proposal had been made.
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