The Large Hadron Collider, scheduled to restart in September, is the Bevatron’s really big brother. Bevatron, fortunately, didn’t create any mini dark holes or vacuum bubbles, and thus the universe was able to survive it.

Historic Atom Smasher Reduced to Rubble and Revelry.

What was once the world’s biggest atom smasher will soon be nothing more than a collection of old photos and the dust beneath the next big science machine.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Bevatron, built by the Atomic Energy Commission for $9 million in the early ’50s, is slowly being demolished in the hills overlooking San Francisco Bay. In a few years, all traces of it will be gone.