A military watchdog group that tracks military spending revealed that it has uncovered a US military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly cause enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each other.
He added that the government records he obtained suggest the military gave the plan much stronger consideration than it has acknowledged.
Edward Hammond, of Berkeley's Sunshine Project, had used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the proposal from the Air Force's Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. The documents show the Air Force lab asked for US$7.5 million for a six-year project. An Air Force lab reportedly sent a proposal to the Pentagon which suggested weaponising "strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behaviour."
"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 after reviewing the documents.
"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.
"The truth of the matter is it would have never come to my attention if it was dismissed at the time it was proposed," he added. "In fact, the Pentagon has used it repeatedly and subsequently in an effort to promote non-lethal weapons, and in fact they submitted it to the highest scientific review body in the country for them to consider."
Gay community leaders in California were quoting as saying that they found the idea of a "gay bomb" both offensive and almost laughable at the same time.