10 Insane Plans You Won't Believe The Military Tried
1. The Gay Bomb
For all their supposed military and technological genius, the US Army has an understanding on homosexuality analogous to a 13-year-old 4chan member, or a present-day Republican senator. This is, after all, an institution which only repealed its don't ask, don't tell policy officially in 2011. So it makes a kind of sense they developed a gay bomb. In 1994, no less. That was the year that US Air Force R&D division the Wright Laboratory produced a three-page proposal for a gay bomb, which is to say a weapon that would be dropped on enemy combatants who would then (presumably) be too distracted by looking into each other eyes and adopting children to fight back.
Harassing, Annoying and Bad Guy Identifying Chemicals was the proposal's name, and creating a chemical that would cause enemy soldiers to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistibly attractive to one another was its game. The Pentagon were interested, but ultimately passed.
An interesting end note to this last plan? Rumour has it a similar project was proposed in the seventies, using pheromones drawn from bees as an aphrodisiac. Ooooh, sexy bees.