Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Who dropped the gay bomb?

This may be the most delicious news obtained via the Freedom of Information Act:

A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.
Apparently an Ohio Air Force lab conducted the reseach in the early nineties. The Onion's reporters couldn't have phrased this better:
"The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another," [Edward] Hammond [of Berkeley's Sunshine Project] said after reviewing the document.
Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for the tip.

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