Via KPIX: Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A ‘Gay Bomb’

Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently rejected, building the so-called “Gay Bomb.”

Edward Hammond, of Berkeley’s Sunshine Project, had used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the proposal from the Air Force’s Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio.

As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, “One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior.”

I don’t know whether I should laugh or cry…

(BTW, for those who don’t get the title, the first attempt to take Maxwell Smart to the silver screen was called The Nude Bomb and it was a real stinker of a flick).