Complex sentence: Cohon bought two de-commissioned SS17 nuclear missiles and was fired from his job but quickly re-hired when he turned them into Coca-Cola kiosks and it got covered on the front page of The New York Times.
Split into simpler sentences: Cohon bought two decommissioned SS17 nuclear missiles and was fired from his job. However, he was quickly rehired when he turned them into Coca-Cola kiosks and it got covered on the front page of The New York Times.