Police can hardly believe the discovery: man has old nuclear missile in the shed. The missile is a Douglas AIR-2 Genie, an unguided air-to-air missile designed to carry a nuclear warhead.
There were no explosives attached to the rocket and the fuel tanks were also empty. Since the item is inactive and the military did not demand it back, the man was even allowed to keep the rocket. In their post they allude to the well-known Elton John song ‘Rocket Man’