I recently read an article that referenced some examples of lateral thinking.  Did you know that the United States military once considered developing a non-lethal gay bomb to drop on the enemy?  It would be in the form of a gas, that when inhaled would make the soldiers uncontrollably horny.

As I read this I had tears in my eyes just imagining the thought of a bunch of soldiers, willing to die for their country, gung-ho and adrenalized for the forthcoming battle, suddenly shedding their gear and uniforms and passionately sucking on each others meat-stick.  As amusing as this may sound, now imaging the advancing American army encountering this orgy in progress.  If the gas was lingering, would they join in?  Imagine what this would do for the peace process afterwards.  If the gas was dispersed, would the infected army chase them hoping to get some desert?  Furthermore, if the new horny army advances, naked and weaponless, do the Americans cut them down or do they retreat?

Thankfully this never got beyond any sort of conceptualization.  It is doubtful that the Americans have that type of technology in any event.  However…if they did…would it not be interesting to host a meeting between Israeli and Palestinian leaders and pump the gas through?  Or maybe the Russians and the Chechens?  It brings a new meaning to the term “Make Love Not War.”

Truly another strange ideal was brought forth by the British in 1957.  Code named “Blue Peacock,” a seven tonne nuclear landmine was conceived to be buried in Germany in case the Russians decided to advance.  However, the problem with nukes are that they tend not to work terribly well in the cold, and Germany’s winters are not exactly warm.

As a result, a proposal was put forth to fill the casing of the nuke with chickens, as their body heat would keep the nuke relatively warm during the cold winter months (I wonder why they didn’t use peacocks, or call their little toy Blue Chicken?).  Needless to say, this plan never came to fruition.  The army decided that the fallout from detonating one of these devices would have been rather unacceptable (the device had an explosive yield of around ten kilotons, which was about half the size of the bomb the United States dropped on Nagasaki in 1945).