So there's this hole in Texas...This is a story about the greatest failure in American physics: The Superconducting Super Collider. This video is a super-sized compilation of all three parts of America's Missing Collider, from the Ronald Reagan era, to George Bush Sr., to Bill Clinton.

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The primary source on all things SSC is the fantastic book "Tunnel Visions", which I used as a blueprint to map out the series. Details involving budgets and congressional votes I accessed from the official government websites, 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 (The Higgs boson) by Leon Lederman".

Music by @WhiteBatAudio unless otherwise noted:
Part 1:
Brave New World
Endless Night
Home
Arcadia
Rain City
Forgotten Planet
Edge of Tomorrow
Night Crawler
Black Rainbows
Empty City
The Drop
Virtual Death
Prince of Darkness
Astral Projection
Afterglow
Hackers

Part 2:
Tryst by @REPULSIVE
Alliance
Moonlight
Endless Night
The Drop
Agent Cooper
The Heist
Last Stop
Empty City
New Beginnings
Sentimental
Mysterious Green Fluid
Sycophant
Virtual Death
Lucid Dream
Echoes
Crash Site
Night of the Creeps
Dangerous

Part 3:
Fortress Europe by Futuremono
Akanes Regret by @REPULSIVE
Dangerous
Miami Sky
The Showdown
The Night Dweller
Slasher
The Guardian
The Traveler
Nightscapes
Melt

Credits song: Hard Times Come Again No More by the Westerlies

0:00 Part 1: Reagan
1:02:52 Part 2: Bush
2:13:06 Part 3: Clinton