  The present status of the heavy-ion program to search for quark-gluon plasma
is reviewed. The goal of this program is to recreate the Big Bang in the
laboratory, by generating small chunks of exploding quark-gluon plasma (``The
Little Bang''). I argue that the analogues of the three pillars of Big Bang
Theory (Hubble flow, microwave background radiation, and primordial
nucleosynthesis) have now been firmly established in heavy-ion collisions at
SPS energies: there is convincing evidence for strong radial flow, thermal
hadron emission, and primordial hadrosynthesis from a color-deconfined initial
stage. Direct observation of the quark-gluon plasma phase via its
electromagnetic radiation will be possible in planned collider experiments at
higher energies.
