[en] The SSC is a profile bottom factory, with B-pair production rates orders of magnitude larger than at any other existing or proposed machine. As such, it will provide a unique opportunity for a comprehensive study of CP violation in the B-bar B system. Such a study will either confirm and refine the Standard Model, or be a sensitive indicator of new physics. In addition, copious production of top and other intermediate-mass states decaying into bottom are expected at the SSC. The design of the Bottom Collider Detector (BCD) is tailored to probe transverse momenta of order of the b-quark mass, i.e., low- and intermediate-P_t physics at the SSC. The forward production of relatively light particles, with masses less than 1% of the machine energy (40 TeV), can be well analyzed in a dipole magnetic spectrometer which emphasizes 3-D vertex reconstruction, precision tracking and momentum analysis, particle identification (leptons, kaons, protons hor-ellipsis) and high-rate data-acquisition system. This document is intended as a brief summary to acquaint the community with the physics goals of the BCD collaboration and the current status of our design and R ampersand D efforts. 23 refs., 9 figs