Do you know the gay bomb project?

It is not an invention or a film of the eighties, when the homophobic humor was still socially accepted, or when the scripts of American cinema were not very demanding, nor is it a porn movie, but a real story of the decade of the nineties that has come to light thanks to the "Freedom of Information Act" ( Freedom of Information Act ), which allows access to secret documents after a certain number of years , which vary according to the importance of the secret or to the damages that its diffusion may cause.

Using this law, Edward Hammond of the University Berkeley had access to documents from the Wright Laboratories of Ohio, a US Air Force research laboratory that in 1994 proposed, among other unconventional weapons, the development of a "gay bomb" .

The “make love and not war” bomb, designed for war

Stop speculating: the exploding bomb was supposed to release a non-lethal chemical that would cause an uncontrollable sexual attraction by his companions in the soldiers of the enemy army , canceling them as combat troop.

And although it seems the plot of a movie starring Peter Sellers, this proposal was delivered to the Air Force, and for its initial development a budget of no less than seven million five hundred was estimated.thousand dollars!

Do you know the gay bomb project?

In honor of the truth, and in favor of the US Air Force, the proposal was quickly dismissed.Also that the laboratory recognized that there was no substance that functioned as homosexual aphrodisiac , and that it would have to be invented.

The Ig Nobel Prize

When this story was published, the Wright Laboratories became On deserving in 2007 of the Ig Nobel Peace Prize (for thinking of a weapon that did not kill, at least not immediately), a prestigious humorous recognition-which parodies the true Nobel Prizes, which delivered in Stockholm-awarded at Harvard University to seemingly absurd scientific projects, and which in this case was granted by:

"to instigate research and development of a chemical weapon, the so-called gay bomb, make enemy soldiers irresistible to each other.”

It is not surprising that no member of the Air Force attended the ceremony at Harvard University to receive the prize.

If you liked the article, read also about the 10 inventions that killed their inventors.

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