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A group is digging through evidence of old, discontinued weapons programs:

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.

Must. Remain. Silent.

Other ideas included chemical weapons that attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats to troop positions, making them uninhabitable.

One wonders if making them uninhabitable with high explosives might not work better.

The plans have been posted online by the Sunshine Project, an organisation that exposes research into chemical and biological weapons.

Hint to the "Sunshine Project": Try North Korea.

Posted by Mitch at January 14, 2005 06:24 PM | TrackBack