Is ground zero in New York or Hiroshima? Something don't seem right here

[NNN0LHI]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBATZR667E.html

Goldman Sachs Suspends Plans to Build Headquarters at Ground Zero

According to data submitted to the United Nations by Hiroshima City in 1976, the death count reached 140,000 (plus or minus 10,000) by the end of December, 1945.

http://mothra.rerf.or.jp/ENG/A-bomb/History/Damages.html

[Skinner]

1. Both sites are called Ground Zero.

And the term makes sense in both cases.

The Goldman Sachs article refers to the New York Ground Zero.

[The Witch]

2. What that image is missing

is an image of the a-bomb dome BEFORE it hit.

http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/kids/KPSH_E/question_box/question1.html

Sigh. I do so love Hiroshima...

an off-topic Witch

[Minstrel Boy]

3. It's the "We are the World" complex,

that can take any tragedy, Ethiopian famine, say - and make it about "us."

For me, "Ground Zero" will always only mean Hiroshima.

[Eagle_Eye]

4. I thought ground zero was at the Trinity Test Site near

Socorro, New Mexico. After all, it was the first ground zero of the first atomic bomb.

[liberal N proud]

5. I have always been bothered by the naming of New York as Ground Zero

Hiroshima is where the first nuclear bomb was detonated.
The Pentagon was alway called Ground Zero prior to 9/11.
Using Ground Zero was a political thing that they (the MSM) used to get the ratings.
It was a collision with buildings by airplanes, not an explosion.

I never call the WTC site Ground Zero, refuse to patronize the demons

[Stephanie]

6. I never call it that either - it's always the World Trade to me or the WTC

I live in NYC and I hate that term. Will not use it ever. The subway stop is still World Trade Center, BTW.

[Worst Username Ever]

7. Ground zero is the site of any detonation.

If you blew up a pipe bomb, the police would call the immediate area "ground zero."

[OrlandoGator]

9. Yes, "Ground Zero" is the term for the epicenter of any explosion.

In fact, the use of the term "Ground Zero" for the World Trade Center collapse is actually quite incorrect.

[melissinha]

8. Ashamed

I am ashamed that the company I work for consults for Goldman Sachs....Bechtel etc... time for a new job....

Yeah, the MSM and their choice of words. I learned in college that you really can tint your speech to advocate without really appearing to do so. One term I don't like is the use of the word "insurgents" by the media and politicians... the insurgents in Iraq should be referred to as guerrillas... not insurgents...

Insurgent: rising in opposition to civil or political authority or against an established government.

guerrilla: A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy, as by surprise raids.

We are the Occupying force, the Iraqi "enemy combatants" are an "indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy"