According to one of the claims, the US Army considered developing a "gay bomb" for sexual attraction among enemy soldiers
The US military tested the possibility of building a "gay bomb", which would cause enemy soldiers to be uncontrollably attracted to each other. This is according to government documents published after courts forced the Ministry of Defense to publish them under the Freedom of Information Law. Among the other weapons that were not developed in the end is also a means of locating soldiers through the bad smell of their mouths.
The US Department of Defense has considered using a variety of non-lethal chemicals to disrupt discipline and morale in the enemy army. The plans, from 1994, were for a six-year project at a cost of 7.5 million dollars - but they were never realized.
The US Air Force's Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio tried to get funding from the Pentagon for research on "pesky chemicals that create a nuisance." The plans were obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act by the Sunshine Project, an organization that monitors research in the field of biological and chemical weapons.
The plan for the "love bomb" included a chemical that would act as an aphrodisiac and cause homosexual behavior among enemy soldiers, thereby causing what the US military called an "unpleasant but completely non-lethal" blow to enemy morale. The scientists also considered using a chemical weapon called "attack me/sting me", which would attract swarms of angry wasps or violent rats towards enemy soldiers.
Another idea was to develop a chemical that causes an "extremely bad smell from the mouth", so that it would be possible to easily identify the enemy soldiers even when they try to assimilate among civilians. Another version of this idea is the "Who? Me?", which will cause gas in the soldiers' stomachs. The idea for such a bomb was raised as early as 1945. A spokesman for the Pentagon said that the Ministry of Defense receives "hundreds" of ideas for projects, but "none of the systems described in the 1994 proposal have been developed".
