Finally, military technology we can all support

[BlackShanglan]

Please - someone write a story based on that second paragraph!


Pentagon reveals rejected chemical weapons
15 January 2005
From New Scientist Print Edition.

THE Pentagon considered developing a host of non-lethal chemical weapons that would disrupt discipline and morale among enemy troops, newly declassified documents reveal.

Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says.

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", making it easy to identify guerrillas trying to blend in with civilians. There was also the idea of making troops' skin unbearably sensitive to sunlight.

The proposals, from the US Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, date from 1994. The lab sought Pentagon funding for research into what it called "harassing, annoying and 'bad guy'-identifying chemicals". The plans have been posted online by the Sunshine Project, an organisation that exposes research into chemical and biological weapons.

Spokesman Edward Hammond says it was not known if the proposed $7.5 million, six-year research plan was ever pursued.

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[Guest]

Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says.

Soon there will be nightclubs spritzing you with this stuff as you walk in.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Re: Re: Finally, military technology we can all support

Soon there will be nightclubs spritzing you with this stuff as you walk in.

Or Bed Bath and Beyonds.

Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says.

This is a great story idea though. Now the wheels are turning. I wonder if they already experimented on the Russian navy. I mean, check this out.
Komrades

 

[SeaCat]

Hmmmmm, I wonder if they developed one just for men, or if they developed one for women as well. (Now why should they be left out of the fun? Or is the bad morale thing?) If they developed one that would only work on the opposite sex they could market it.

I can see the ads now.
"It doesn't matter who you are or how you look. One spritz from Irresistable and you're going to get laid!"


Cat

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Defntely a story idea in there. Just not sure if the author should be on eof our Gay male specialists, Mind Control afficiados, or Group sex Maestros

 

[BlackShanglan]

Sorry, just occurred to me that I can't quite believe they used this phrase:

a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale

Shanglan

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I've written it already.

 

[yui]

I can see the ads now.
"It doesn't matter who you are or how you look. One spritz from Irresistable and you're going to get laid!"


Cat

Isn't that Axe's tag line?

 

[Boxlicker101]

THE Pentagon considered developing a host of non-lethal chemical weapons that would disrupt discipline and morale among enemy troops, newly declassified documents reveal.

Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says.

I can't help but think that if they could actually do this, which I strongly doubt, they could refine it further and use it to make the opposite sexes "irrestibly attractive" to each other. Just think how great it would be for mixer-type get togethers.

 

[rgraham666]

I can't help but think that if they could actually do this, which I strongly doubt, they could refine it further and use it to make the opposite sexes "irrestibly attractive" to each other. Just think how great it would be for mixer-type get togethers.

Shit no! We've already got too many people on this planet.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

I don't think there is anything in the news suggesting that the attraction would be ONLY homossexual. I figured it would make you horny for whoever was around...

 

[smoochypig]

I don't think there is anything in the news suggesting that the attraction would be ONLY homossexual. I figured it would make you horny for whoever was around...

Oh god... lets get the bomb dogs out of there fast!

 

[shereads]

I agree with Jack Handy ("Deep Thoughts") that before we build more weapons we should try to use all the weapons we already have.

 

[R. Richard]

I can't help but think that if they could actually do this, which I strongly doubt, they could refine it further and use it to make the opposite sexes "irrestibly attractive" to each other. Just think how great it would be for mixer-type get togethers. [/B]

Actually they long ago developed an item that makes women irressistably attractive to men in a certain public situation. It is called "Last call."

 

[SeaCat]

Actually they long ago developed an item that makes women irressistably attractive to men in a certain public situation. It is called "Last call."

Now cleaning beeer out of my KeyBoard. (Again. Damn it, I'm going broke from this.)

Cat

 

[Boxlicker101]

Actually they long ago developed an item that makes women irressistably attractive to men in a certain public situation. It is called "Last call."

All women have something that makes them irresistible to most men. It's called a pussy. There is also something that will make men irresistible to many women. It's money.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

What the hell. The "make them sinners, then whack them" plan?

I'm laughing my ass off but I'm not sure at who or what yet.

And I'd say gay male category, people don't seem as tolerant of gay sex outside its genre but are of lesbian sex outside of it. Probably because it represents a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to their hard-on.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Luc, I enjoyed your post. I very nearly posted something long and hopelessly pedantic about how this idea suggests fascinating things about societal attitudes toward homosexuality, but you managed to suggest it all with delightful brevity.

Shanglan