Rocket discovered in a man’s garage in Washington state is in fact an inert nuclear missile

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nuclear-missile-found-us-man-191224528.html

"Authorities contacted a man in Bellevue after he called the Air Force Museum offering to donate a military-grade rocket that belonged to his late neighbour. He said that his neighbour had bought the item from an estate sale.

Bellevue police bomb squad technicians said it was a Douglas AIR-2 Genie, an unguided air-to-air rocket that is designed to carry a 1.5kt W25 nuclear warhead. They said there was no warhead attached and there was no danger of an explosion.--------
The Genie was the first nuclear-armed air-to-air weapon.

It said it was the “most powerful interceptor missile ever deployed by the US Air Force”.
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From an estate sale? Free market!

 

Might be used to destroy another nuclear missile instead of a plane.... I don't know....

 

You could probably take out a fleet of airplanes with an air-to-air nuclear missile. Spreading nuclear waste all over the place sounds like potential problem. I guess their idea was that it would be used on planes carrying nuclear weapons so that would reduce it to a minor concern?

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/1-000-pound-bomb-uncovered-134619785.html

One more:
1,000-pound bomb uncovered at Florida airport prompts half-mile evacuation, cops say

 

I miss those stores -- you know the ones. In the 50s they were called "War Surplus." In the 60s-70s they were called "Military Surplus." After that, they were gone.... You could probably have found a lot of this stuff there... along with canteens, boots and thick, itchy uniform pants... I bought binoculars there once. I was about 11. Not very good - certainly not military spec. - but they only cost $1, so...

 

As far as I know, it was planned to use them above the ocean.

 

Not for use above the Kremlin?

 

I don't much like the click bait headline. "Inert Nuclear Missile" comes waaay too close to "Inert Nuclear Weapon"