Question Earthority!

“Until it was shut down in 1993, a 10,000-ton magnetic doughnut known as the Bevatron smashed atoms under tight security for 39 years in the Berkeley hills. It was one of the giant machines that America built for physicists to continue their atomic research after the bomb ended World War II. Because it was off limits to the public for most of its history, few people know much about what happened inside the Bevatron, housed inside a 180-foot-wide domed building. Now, the U.S. Energy Department’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory wants to demolish what’s left at the site to make room for unspecified future projects, but some locals are pushing to save the facility as a historic landmark.” (06/29/06)