>>577020
I share my birthday though not my birth year with the first successful test-fire of the Titan I ICBM, so I have a connection with it of sorts.
Here's some information about it.
The SM-68A/HGM-25A Titan I ICBM is an American two-stage liquid fueled rocket. It was manufactured by the Glenn L. Martin Airspace Company under contract. It's payload was a W38 thermonuclear bomb with a yield of 3.75 megatons. For reference, Fat Man had a yield of 0.021 megatons and the more modern B53 had a yield of 9 megatons. The most powerful bomb the US currently has in service, the B83, has a yield of 1.2 megatons.
The Titan I was the first truly two stage design, where the first stage engines were ignited on the launch pad and then detached at altitude where the second stage engines were fired. This technology vastly increased both overall the range and range per-pound of fuel. This extended range meant that the Titan I could threaten Eastern Europe from American soil.
The Titan I was also the first ICBM to be place in underground Silos. These Silos are what we think about today when we think about an ICBM Silo, a military complex with everything needed to maintain and launch the multiple ICBMs they had under their command. While the Titan I needed to be raised out of it's silo to be laughed, it's successor the Titan II, became the first that could be launched directly from it's silo.
The Titan I never became something NASA would use for space flight, it is a pure ICBM. A rocket that existed for a short time, but during that time only really existed as a weapon of war. It's far from the best ICBM, but it's an important stepping stone in both spaceflight and in the ICBM systems of today.
If you would like to see a Titan I ICBM in person and you live in the US there may be one local to you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HGM-25A_Titan_I#Static_displays_and_articles
If you still want to see a Titan I ICBM in person but you do not live in and do not want to travel to America or an American territory, I'm afraid you don't have any options. The US military no longer provides free global overnight shipping for the Titan I.