ground zero
the area of ground immediately beneath an atomic explosion
TRANSLATION
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STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Thousands remember at Hiroshima's ground zero - Fifty-five years after the United States dropped an atomic bomb there, some 50,000 people in the Japanese city of Hiroshima observed a minute's silence for the victims."
(DPA HIROSHIMA - Monday 7 August 2000)
(DPA HIROSHIMA - Monday 7 August 2000)
Did you
know?
Ground zero entered the English language at the end of World War II when it referred to the detonation point of a nuclear bomb. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 the site of the World Trade Center is now called ground zero.
