Scientists developed ‘gay bomb’ to make enemy soldiers stop fighting and make love

Last updated at 10:22 15 October 2007

“All’s fair in love and war,” the old proverb goes.

And one group of military scientists certainly took the statement to heart when they designed a “gay bomb” to make enemy soldiers irresistible to each other.

Researchers from the US Air Force submitted a three-page proposal to Pentagon chiefs to develop lust-creating chemical weapon, it has been revealed.

Scientists at the Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio – working to make American military might even mightier – made the discovery in 1994, according to detailed papers unearthed through a freedom of information request.

And last night they were finally rewared with an Ig Nobel prize for peace, a spoof of the Nobel prizes, due to be announced next week.

Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research and the man behind the Ig Nobel awards, explained: “We don’t know if this document was the start and end of it or whether, in fact, this project continued and perhaps continues to this day.”

The awards ceremony at America’s prestigious Harvard University celebrate the quirkier side of science, handing out 10 gongs.

Soldiers in high heels draw online outburst

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Apr 23, 2015

    Cadets and cadre put on their favorite pair of high heels and marched in Temple’s Walk a Mile in Her Shoes
    event to raise awareness of sexual assault against women. #TUWAM15 Temple University ROTC

    On April 1, about 15 cadets from Temple University participated in a school-sponsored Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event, during which men stumble through a pre-set route while sporting high heels as a way to raise awareness for sexual assault victims. Several cadets walked while wearing Army Combat Uniforms, as did the school’s professor of military science, Lt. Col. Greg Nardi, who runs Temple’s Red Diamond Brigade.

    Military blogs like This Ain’t Hell reported on the cadets weeks later. Around that time, another high-heel walk, this one sponsored by the ROTC brigade at Arizona State University, drew attention when a screen shot of a message allegedly from an ASU cadet complaining about his school’s event landed on Reddit’s Army channel, the Facebook page of U.S Army W.T.F! Moments, and other sites.

    Photos from the Temple event became associated with the April 20 ASU event,


    Cadets and cadre put on their favorite pair of high heels and marched in Temple’s Walk a Mile in Her Shoes
    event to raise awareness of sexual assault against women. #TUWAM15 Temple University ROTC

    Wearing civilian footwear along with the Army Combat Uniform, regardless of the intent of the display, violates regulations, an Army spokesman confirmed.

    Photo Credit: Temple University ROTC via Facebook