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The Pentagon's 'secret sodomite weapon'

Aphrodisiac to change heterosexual men into sodomites?

US military chiefs are said to have considered developing an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy troops sexually irresistible to each other, according to a report in New Scientist.

The Sunshine Project, which exposes research into chemical and biological weapons, revealed the plans to the magazine.

Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the Pentagon proposal said.

Other ideas included chemical weapons that attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats to troop positions, making them uninhabitable.

Another was to develop a chemical that caused 'severe and lasting halitosis', to identify guerrillas trying to blend in with civilians.

There was also an idea to make troops' skin unbearably sensitive to sunlight.

According to the BBC, researchers also pondered a "Who? Me?" bomb, which would simulate flatulence in enemy ranks. This device had been under consideration since 1945.

But researchers had concluded that the premise for such a device was fatally flawed because "people in many areas of the world do not find faecal odour offensive, since they smell it on a regular basis", according to the BBC.

The proposals, from the US Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, apparently date from 1994.

The lab sought Pentagon funding for research into what it called "harassing, annoying and 'bad guy'-identifying chemicals".

Sunshine Project spokesperson Edward Hammond said it was not known if the proposed six-year research plan had been pursued. But Captain Dan McSweeney of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate at the Pentagon told the BBC that the defence department receives "literally hundreds" of project ideas, but that "none of the systems described in that [1994] proposal have been developed".

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Posted by Editor at January 17, 2005 06:16 AM