It has been revealed in government documents that the U.S. military was looking into the possibility of a “gay bomb,” which would render enemy troops “sexually irresistible” to one another. Another concept for a weapon which never became a reality was to easily track down enemy troops by locating their bad breath.

The U.S. Defense Department looked into a range of nonlethal chemicals meant to effect enemy morale and order in 1994 for a six-year $7.5 million project but nothing ever came of it. The U.S. Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio sought Pentagon funding for researching what was termed “harassing, annoying and ‘bed guy’ identifying chemicals.”

Plans for the project were acquired under the U.S. Freedom of Information by the Sunshine Project, a group which oversees research into chemical and biological weapons. The “gay” or “love bomb” concept imagined an aphrodisiac chemical which would create widespread homosexual behavior among enemy soldiers in what the military referred to as “distasteful but completely nonlethal” hit to enemy morale.

Another concept for a weapon was the “sting me/attack me” weapon which would employ a chemical agent to cause enraged swarms of bees and rats to attack as well as a weapon designed to cause the skin to become unbearably sensitive to sunlight. Researchers also conceived of a weapon which would cause “severe and lasting halitosis” in order to make enemy soldiers stand out among civilians and even a “who me?” bomb, which would cause extreme flatulence in enemy soldiers.

Captain Dan McSweeney of the Joint Nonlethal Weapons Directorate at the Pentagon stated that the defense department received hundreds of ideas but that none of the ones in the 1994 proposal were ever created.