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| Carme Bean at One World Trade Center |
Carme Bean wanted to visit the Ground Zero in New York City. This is, perhaps, one of the saddest visits that you can do in the city, but memory is always the best testimony of history and you don't have to forget these facts although you must learn to live with them.
The origins of the term ground zero began with the Trinity test in Jornada del Muerto desert near Socorro, New Mexico, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. The Strategic Bombing Survey of the atomic attacks, released in June 1946, used the term liberally, defining it as: For convenience, the term 'ground zero' will be used to designate the point on the ground directly beneath the point of detonation, or 'air zero'.
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William Laurence, an embedded reporter with the Manhattan Project, reported that Zero was the code name given to the spot chosen for the Trinity test in 1945.
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| The Beans on the top seeing NYC views |
The Oxford English Dictionary, citing the use of the term in a 1946 New York Times report on the destroyed city of Hiroshima, defines ground zero as that part of the ground situated immediately under an exploding bomb, especially an atomic one.
The World Trade Center site, formerly known as Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks, is a 5.9 ha area in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The previous World Trade Center complex stood on the site until it was destroyed in the September 11 attacks.
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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ), Silverstein Properties, and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) oversee the reconstruction of the site according to a master plan by Studio Daniel Libeskind.
The site is bounded by Vesey Street to the north, the West Side Highway to the west, Liberty Street to the south, and Church Street to the east. The Port Authority owns the site's land, except for 7 World Trade Center. Developer Larry Silverstein holds the lease to retail and office space in four of the site's buildings.
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity,
his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men,
and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Minoru Yamasaki
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