Comments on the Death of the SSC

The cancellation of the SSC meant that many years of work by many of America's top scientists has been for nothing, and for many, their research careers are now ending. Once lost, American expertise in high energy physics cannot be regained. We must now turn to Europe for future advances in cutting-edge physics. Here are some responses, the first from a widely circulated e-mail, and the others from the Usenet newsgroup sci.physics.accelerators.