Abstract

Visiting US officials hoping to persuade Japan to lend a $1.2bn hand with the estimated $8.25bn costs of the Superconducting Supercollider (SSC) to be built in Texas by 1999 continue to receive short shrift from their Japanese counterparts. Admiral James D Watkins, the US Energy Secretary and the latest in a line of petitioners (see Physics World November p11) met several members of the Japanese government on 3–6 December but, rather than softening them up for President Bush's intended visit in early January, seems to have left behind him a trail of insults.

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