Following the passage by Congress of the Magnetic Fusion Energy Engineering Act of 1980 and its signature by President Jimmy Carter on October 7, 1980, Fusion Power Associates produced a 5-minute fusion video that is also available on YouTube at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAT6mNqxafE

"And the beat goes on ..."

History buffs can track 1980s fusion by viewing Fusion Power Associates monthly Executive Newsletters, including the historic agreement between Reagan and Gorbachev to join force with other countries to construct the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) now being built in France. The Executive Newsletters (1979-2005) are archived at:
https://fire.pppl.gov/fpa_executive_newsletter.html

Further history, as it happened, can be tracked via Fusion Power Associates Fusion Program Notes (1996-present) at:
http://www.qedfusion.org/FPA/

For a more extensive written history in book form (through 2013) see:
Search for the Ultimate Energy Source (Springer 2013)
ISBN 978-1-4614-6036-7
ISBN 978-1-4614-6037-4 (ebook)
ISSN 1865-3537 (electronic)
Available on Amazon, including option to download specific chapters.