Pentagon Was Planning a 'Gay Bomb'

The Pentagon is confirming long-running rumors that it was considering the possibility of creating a hormone bomb aimed at turning enemy combatants homosexual. The idea was that this would make the enemy more interested in having sex with each other than fighting.

Edward Hammond, of Berkeley's Sunshine Project, discovered the plans when he found a copy of the proposal from the Air Force's Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio.

"The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soldiers to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistibly attractive to one another," Hammond said.

"The notion was that a chemical that would probably be pleasant in the human body in low quantities could be identified, and by virtue of either breathing or having their skin exposed to this chemical, the notion was that soldiers would become gay," explained Hammond.

U.S. military officials confirmed to KPIX-TV in San Francisco that a "gay bomb" was on the drawing board in 1994 as a part of an effort to develop non-lethal weapons but then subsequently rejected.