Weapons of mass seduction
Posted on January 14, 2005 @ 8:59 am
Your tax dollars at work, via New Scientist:
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.
Ooo, I wanna play too! How about a chemical weapon that forces enemy troops to speak using bad grammar, embarrassing and demoralizing them in front of family and friends? Or one that transforms bad guys into physical replicas of Latin singing sensation Charo? Or a chemical agent that makes them think they’re hot dogs, so they try to eat themselves? The possibilities are endless!
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Seriously, if we could use hormones that caused troops to grow breasts, that would be great. The problem is that if you get accidentally sprayed by or consume some of the chemicals as part of the allied forces, you’d be so screwed.
you’d be so screwed
Yes, but only in a “distasteful but completely non-lethal” manner.
That has to be the funniest thing I have read in a while. Maybe we could spray them with some of that ink that is in the security tags on clothes. Then they would be permanently blue or pink and we could identify them that way! Who thought up those things? Can I get a job there?
i especially like the ones that turns them into a gay vampire (homosexual urges and sensitivity to sunlight)
mix n’ match!
imagine the tactical to practical uses such a thing could be put to in san francisco