Rocket designed to hold nuclear warhead found in man’s storage in Bellevue

A rocket designed to hold a nuclear warhead was discovered within the storage of a house within the US.

Police in Bellevue, a metropolis throughout Lake Washington from Seattle, had been known as to a report of a military-grade rocket by the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio, on Wednesday night.

A Bellevue resident had phoned the museum and mentioned they wished to donate an merchandise that belonged to a neighbour who had died.

The man mentioned his neighbour had initially bought the rocket from an property sale.

Bellevue Police Department contacted the person who had approached the museum, with bomb squad members later given entry to the missile.

They inspected the rocket and located it to be a Douglas AIR-2 Genie – an unguided air-to-air rocket that’s designed to hold a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead.

There was no warhead hooked up.

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Bomb squad members confirmed that the item was inert and contained no rocket gas – which means that the merchandise was an artefact with no explosive danger.

The police drive mentioned they had been in a position to go away the merchandise with the neighbour to be restored after which displayed in a museum.

In a nod to the traditional Elton John music Rocket Man, Bellevue Police posted on the X social media platform: “We think it’s gonna be a long, long time before we get another call like this again.”