BBC NEWS | Americas | US military pondered love not war: "The plan for a so-called 'love bomb' envisaged an aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among troops, causing what the military called a 'distasteful but completely non-lethal' blow to morale.
Scientists also reportedly considered a 'sting me/attack me' chemical weapon to attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats towards enemy troops.
A substance to make the skin unbearably sensitive to sunlight was also pondered.
Another idea was to develop a chemical causing 'severe and lasting halitosis', so that enemy forces would be obvious even when they tried to blend in with civilians.
In a variation on that idea, researchers pondered a 'Who? Me?' bomb, which would simulate flatulence in enemy ranks.
Indeed, a 'Who? Me?' device had been under consideration since 1945, the government papers say.
However, researchers concluded that the premise for such a device was fatally flawed because 'people in many areas of the world do not find faecal odour offensive, since they smell it on a regular basis'. "
This sort of military funding I approve!

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