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Could a different approach have saved the Superconducting Super Collider?

23 Oct 2023

Michael Riordan argues that if the US had followed a more conservative strategy when building the Superconducting Super Collider, the history of particle physics could have been different

Large underground tunnel with machinery and cables
Tunnel vision The Superconducting Super Collider in Texas was spiked after some $2bn had already been ploughed into its design and construction. (Courtesy: DOE)
Thirty years ago this month, the US Congress voted to terminate the Superconducting Super Collider (

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Michael Riordan is a physicist and science historian, author of The Hunting of the Quark and lead author of Tunnel Visions: the Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider, e-mail quark.hunter@rockisland.com
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