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The year 1964, due to the ongoing tensions between US and USSR from the Cuban Missal Crisis the previous year. President Kennedy order that Hanscom Air Force Base deployed Six Nike ICBM interceptors on the Bedford Common, three of them can be seen here. They remained on the Common till 1987 when President Gary Hart signed the order for there removal. This occurred just four months before the conclusion of his impeachment trial.