text: The US funded a magnetic mirror program in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This program resulted in a series of magnetic mirror devices including: 2X, Baseball I, Baseball II, the Tandem Mirror Experiment and upgrade, the Mirror Fusion Test Facility, and MFTF-B. These machines were built and tested at LLNL from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s. The final machine, MFTF cost 372 million dollars and was, at that time, the most expensive project in LLNL history. It opened on February 21, 1986, and immediately closed, allegedly to balance the federal budget.