You understand the outdated saying: “One man’s trash is one other man’s nuclear warhead.” After all, you do, and that’s why it’ll come as no shock that parts of a really massive, largely intact nuclear missile — together with its goddamn warhead — had been discovered within the storage of a Washington State resident.

The Bellevue Police Division’s bomb squad was referred to as to the storage of a deceased man after an Air Drive museum in Dayton, Ohio contacted them on January 31, based on a publish on the Bellevue Police Division’s web site. The museum had acquired a name from the person who was taking care of the property since its proprietor had died, and he was trying to donate the warhead to the museum. It was apparently initially bought at an property sale.

Anyway, police got entry to the reported missile and had been in a position to examine it, studying that it’s a Douglas AIR-2 Genie, based on the publish. For individuals who don’t know army issues, it’s an air-to-air rocket that’s designed to hold a 1.5-kiloton nuclear warhead. Yeah. This factor is legit. Don’t fear although. There’s no warhead connected. Bomb squad members additionally confirmed that the rocket was certainly inert and had no rocket gasoline — which means it’s “an artifact with no explosive hazard,” police stated.

All’s effectively that ends effectively, although, as a result of the rocket is inert and the army didn’t request it again. Meaning it was left with the neighbor to be restored for show in a museum. We’re undecided proper now if the missile will certainly find yourself on the Air Drive museum. In the event that they don’t need it, Jalopnik will gladly take it.

Right here’s a bit of historical past of the Douglas AIR-2 Genie missile, based on the New York Occasions:

First put into operation in 1957, the Genie was the world’s first nuclear-armed rocket designed to destroy plane targets, and was probably the most highly effective interceptor missile deployed by the U.S. Air Drive, based on Boeing.

In 1954, Douglas Plane started work on “a small unguided nuclear-armed air-to-air missile,” based on Boeing. Douglas Plane constructed greater than 1,000 Genie rockets earlier than discontinuing manufacturing in 1962.