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US military planned 'gay bomb'

Newly released documents have shown that the US military was considering the development of a chemical weapon to turn enemy soldiers gay.

Edward Hammond, of Berkeley's Sunshine Project, used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the proposal from the Air Force's Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio and passed it to CBS 5.

According to the document the Air Force requested $7.5m for the development of such a weapon, but the proposal was rejected.

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