Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. military looked into building a so-called "gay bomb," which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each other, the BBC reported Sunday. The weapon was not developed, nor was one to give away positions of soldiers by their bad breath. They were among various non-lethal chemicals the Defense Department considered to disrupt enemy discipline and morale. Advertisement The 1994 plans for a six-year, $7.5 million project would have centered on researching what the U.S. Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, called "harassing, annoying and 'bad guy'-identifying chemicals." The "gay bomb" plan envisaged an aphrodisiac chemical that would lead to homosexual behavior among troops, causing what the military called a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" setback to morale. Scientists also reportedly considered a chemical weapon to attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats towards enemy troops, and a substance to make the skin unbearably sensitive to sunlight.
