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The U.S. army considered building a “gay bomb”, which could make enemy troops “sexually irresistible” to each other, government papers say.
Other weapon plans that were never pursued include one that makes enemy soldiers identifiable by their bad breath.
The U.S. defense department also investigated several non-lethal chemical weapons that aim at disrupting enemy discipline and morale.
The U.S. Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, asked the Pentagon to fund a research in what it called "harassing, annoying and 'bad guy'-identifying chemicals".
The plans were presented in 1994 for a six-year project that costs $7.5 million, but they were never implemented.
It isn’t known if, or when the program was scrapped.
The project suggested the use of "chemicals that affect human behavior so that discipline and morale in enemy units is adversely affected".
The plans were obtained under the U.S. Freedom of Information by the Sunshine Project, which oversees research into chemical and biological weapons.
“Love bomb”
The “love bomb” plan involves an aphrodisiac chemical that incites widespread homosexual behavior among enemy soldiers, resulting in what the military called a “distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale.
Scientists also investigated a “sting me/attack me" chemical weapon which could make troops sexually attractive to “annoying or injurious animals” such as angry wasps or enraged rats.
They also considered a substance that makes the skin highly sensitive to sunlight.
Another plan was to create a chemical that causes “severe and lasting halitosis", so that enemy soldiers could be identifiable even if they were among civilians.
“Who? Me?”
The “halitosis” idea led to another plan called the “Who? Me?” bomb, which makes soldiers produce bad odors and stimulates flatulence among enemy soldiers.
The government papers state that the “Who? Me?” bomb has been under investigation since 1945.
But researchers found out that this device isn't effective because "people in many areas of the world do not find faecal odor offensive, since they smell it on a regular basis".
Captain Dan McSweeney of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate at the Pentagon said that “literally hundreds” of project ideas were sent to the Pentagon, but added that “none of the systems described in that [1994] proposal have been developed".
"It's important to point out that only those proposals which are deemed appropriate, based on stringent human effects, legal, and international treaty reviews are considered for development or acquisition”. He added
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