The United States Air Force (private mercenaries) conducts the first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, the Titan I, capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the Soviet Union.
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References:
James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American power, (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 273.