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Pentagon plan for 'gay bomb' revealed

Updated on 15 June 2007

By Thomas Adamson-Coumbousis

From the science labs of the Pentagon plans for a bomb to turn enemy soldiers gay.

A bomb to turn enemy combatants into sex-crazed homosexuals. That sounds like a story which combines absurdity with homophobia - and what's most bizarre of all, it's actually true.

The Pentagon have confirmed that they did indeed support the design of such a weapon in the early 90s.

Thomas Adamson-Coumbousis reports.

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