To wags during the cold war, ground zero was a favoured spot: better to be incinerated in the first mushroom cloud, they joshed, than to wake up to a world of radioactive rubble.

对于冷战期间诙谐幽默的人来说更愿意选择地面零点：他们冷嘲到，在第一个蘑菇云出现时就被烧死总比过后意识到全世界到处都有放射性物质要好。

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It is destined for Japan's fifth Aegis-class destroyer, now under construction in Nagasaki by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, maker of the World War II Zero fighter and still Japan's largest weapons producer.

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It is set for Japan's fifth Aegis-class destroyer, now under construction in Nagasaki by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, maker of the World War II Zero fighter and still Japan's top weapons producer.

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But today, Virginia is for Killers as well as lovers because Virginia is ground zero of the military-industrial complex that carries on perpetual war around the world wrecking death and destruction wherever its shooters tread dragging it tail of ordinary people behind.

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