AIR-2 Genie: the Most Insane Cold War Weapon

The Douglas AIR-2 ’Genie’ was an unguided nuclear-armed air-to-air rocket developed in the early 1950s for use against Soviet bombers, and was deployed by the USAF from 1957-1988 and the RCAF on a key-sharing basis from 1965-1983. In this episode I am joined by (ret) Darrell Marleau, a former RCAF CF-101 Voodoo navigator, who recounts what it was like to fire the Genie in training exercises.