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Published online 10 October 2007 | Nature 449, 648 (2007) | doi:10.1038/449648a
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Weapons of war scoop spoof Nobels
From sword-swallowing to a 'gay' bomb.
It was a case of 'make love not war' winning out over 'don't ask, don't tell'. Borrowing a bad story line from a B movie, researchers at the US Air Force Research Laboratory at the Wright-Patterson Air Force base in Ohio proposed to develop chemical aphrodisiacs that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other.
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