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Hiroshima
[ heer-oh-shee-muh, hi-roh-shuh-muh; Japanese hee-raw-shee-mah ]
noun
- a seaport on SW Honshu, in SW Japan: first military use of atomic bomb August 6, 1945.
Hiroshima
/ hɪˈrɒʃɪmə; ˌhɪrɒˈʃiːmə /
noun
- a port in SW Japan, on SW Honshu on the delta of the Ota River: largely destroyed on August 6, 1945, by the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare, dropped by the US, which killed over 75 000 of its inhabitants. Pop: 1 113 786 (2002 est)
Hiroshima
1- A Japanese city on which the United States dropped the first atomic bomb (see also atomic bomb ) used in warfare, on August 6, 1945. After the devastation of the bombing, Hiroshima was largely rebuilt.
Hiroshima
2- City on the southwest coast of Honshu Island, Japan ; a commercial and industrial center.
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Example Sentences
It produced more energy than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, according to the US Geological Survey.
There are also lessons learned from other ravaged cities which rose from the ruins including Hiroshima, Beirut, and Berlin.
We have shifted, perhaps, from the condition of planetary fear in the wake of Hiroshima to planetary dread today….
Momita was a pharmacist who was born in Hiroshima, Japan, moved to California with his parents at age 8 and graduated from USC.
For me, the greatest elephant in the room is our government’s possession of a vast supply of nuclear weaponry capable of causing exponentially more destruction than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
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