ground zero

Principle, whose 1984 anthem Your Love is ground zero for Chicago house, also appears in a spoken-word interlude on the album, describing how the scene “went all to hell when the money came into it”.

For Tasmanian Aboriginal people, though, this hillside on the outskirts of Hobart is "ground zero for invasion".

“This is basically ground zero. You’re looking at pristine forests. They have to somehow use that area and cut down trees, divide mountains and all that just to build human settlement.”

Keiko Ogura had been 8 years old on Aug. 6, 1945, living with her family only a mile and a half from ground zero, in a house shielded behind a small hill.

If California is a front line of climate change, the San Joaquin Valley may well be ground zero.