Ronald Reagan & the Biggest Failure in Physics

This is a story about the greatest failure in American physics: The Superconducting Super Collider. It's a story that involves 3 presidents, billions of dollars, the Higgs boson, and Star Wars. This is part 1 of 3.

Part 2:    • George Bush vomited & set Physics bac...  
Part 3:    • Bill Clinton & the Day Physics Died  

The primary source on all things SSC is the book "Tunnel Visions", which I used as a blueprint to map out the series. Many of the quotes are taken from that book, which used primary interviews and are sourced very extensively. Stuff involving budgets and congress I accessed from the official government websites, including votes on bills and amendments, and inflation calculations were done by myself using an online tool. There are a bunch of other documents I read through such as "The Global Research and Development Landscape and Implications for the Department of Defense", "A TIMELINE OF MAJOR PARTICLE ACCELERATORS", "United States nuclear forces, 2019", "High Energy Physics Advisory Panel's Subpanel on Vision for the Future of High-Energy Physics May 1994", "The Intellectual Spoils of War? Defense R&D, Productivity and International Spillovers", "Accessory to War by Neil DeGrasse Tyson", "The Mission by David W Brown", "The God Particle by Leon Lederman".

0:00 The November Revolution
11:47 How the Sausage Gets Made
22:53 Mount Gipper
37:09 Maury, Magnets and Mayhem
44:39 Nothing Personnel
52:45 The Great American Lottery

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