July 27, 1992
October 25, 1993
“Overwhelmingly, many Members (of Congress) needed a symbolic act of budget cutting. The SSC was a project that could be cut because neither the Congress nor their constituents understood it or cared about it.”
— Prof. Steven Weinberg, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Nobel Laureate
“(The cost of the SSC) kept ratcheting up, and we tested the limits of Congress’s endurance. The SSC showed us just how far we could go.”
— Prof. Wil Happer, Princeton University, Former DOE Director of
Energy Research in the Bush and Clinton Administrations
“It’s disheartening that a large number of fairly intelligent people could do such a dumb thing ... The government decided, in its wisdom, that high energy physics has no future in the USA.”
— Prof. Leon Lederman, Illinois Institute of Technology,
Former Director of Fermilab, Nobel Laureate