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Does this answer your question? 



Mr. Packard. That is very fine. Thank you. 



On the SSC, we find Japan, and Canada and, of course, the Euro- 

 pean Community very interested on a cooperative international 

 basis. Do you think that the international considerations for locat- 

 ing the plant or the test site should outweigh the local and nation- 

 al considerations for location of the SSC? 



Dr. Weisskopf. I don't think it makes much difference whether 

 this is now in — I don't know — on the east coast or in the Middle 

 West or on the west coast, from the point of view of distance. Well, 

 it is a few hours additional. I think the Europeans, of course, would 

 prefer to have it nearer to the east coast. But I don't think this is a 

 decisive point. 



Mr. Packard. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. LuJAN [as acting chairman]. Mr. Boehlert is next. 



Mr. Boehlert. Dr. Weisskopf, will spending of national funds in 

 international laboratories be to the detriment of our national lab- 

 oratories? We only have so many dollars to go around. 



Incidentally, you are preaching to the choir here because we are 

 in agreement in terms of the underfunding problem. 



Dr. Weisskopf. I see. That is a very interesting question. There 

 were, of course, complaints about, for example, that we spent some- 

 thing like $30 million on — I wouldn't be sure of the figure, but 

 roughly — in funding experiments at these new European machines, 

 for example at LEP, and that we could use this $30 million here. 



I still think that is a very good investment, because, as we dis- 

 cussed before, it is international science, and we cannot and should 

 not have all possibilities here. LEP, for example, is a possibility we 

 will never have here. 



But we must give our scientists the opportunity to work on this, 

 and therefore I think those $30-odd million are very well expended. 

 I think, if this would not be done and we only have our own, it 

 would narrow the field in the United States. 



In addition, of course, it fosters the international spirit. If we do 

 this to them, they will do this to us and will send instrumentation 

 of equal or maybe more value to our places, which is already begin- 

 ning. If the SSC is finished, it will be done, probably, to a much 

 larger extent. 



Mr. Boehlert. One other question. Doctor. How do you apportion 

 a fair share of a country's contribution to an international effort? 



Dr. Weisskopf. That really depends on the international effort. I 

 mean, it is like in high energy physics, that if we have to divide up 

 the frontier, I think a fair share would correspond to the size of 

 this effort abroad compared to the effort we have, and we think we 

 are interested in this because we cannot do it here, and therefore, 

 a fair share would be that share that makes it possible to realize. 



Mr. Boehlert. Thank you. No further questions, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. FuQUA [resuming as chairman]. Mr. Lujan. 



Mr. Lujan. Just one quick one. The chairman said that the sci- 

 entists have been able to get together much more so than the poli- 

 ticians, and I rather suspect that that is because the politicians 

 have to put up the money, and that always lends itself to a little 

 bit of division. 



