Dear Colleagues, Nature has an Insight article written by Chris Llewellyn Smith titled "How the LHC came to be." Although the ILC is mentioned just briefly, the subtitle, "Approval of a project the size of the Large Hadron Collider is an exercise in politics and high finance", could just as easily be applied to the ILC, so may be of interest. You can read the article online at: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7151/full/nature06076.html;jsessionid=19B1A5B255D718741BDF2229BE43ABA6 If you do not have a subscription you might try contacting your university or lab library. Norman Graf