Big science and big politics in the United States : reflections on the death of the SSC and the life of the Human genome project / Daniel Kevles.
Abstract:
'Both the Superconducting Super Collider and the Human Genome Project originated as ideas in the early 1980s and by the latter part of the decade initiatives had been taken to establish each as a large-scale project of the U.S. federal government. Both were called Big Science, yet while each was a kind of Big-Science enterprise, they were quite different expressions of the genre. That difference figured significantly in the ultimate fate of each, and so did the circumstances of their respective fields of science as the Cold War came to an end and a new agenda for science took hold in the United States.'
Historical studies in the physical and biological sciences Vol. 27 (1997), p. 269-297