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Nagasaki
[ nah-guh-sah-kee, nag-uh-sak-ee; Japanese nah-gah-sah-kee ]
noun
- a seaport on W Kyushu, in SW Japan: second military use of the atomic bomb August 9, 1945.
Nagasaki
/ ˌɑːɡəˈɑːɪ /
noun
- a port in SW Japan, on W Kyushu: almost completely destroyed in 1945 by the second atomic bomb dropped on Japan by the US; shipbuilding industry. Pop: 419 901 (2002 est)
Nagasaki
- City in southern Japan ; one of Japan's leading ports and shipbuilding centers.
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Example Sentences
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.
When the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, “Carousel” was doing boffo business on Broadway.
The organisation made up of survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and founded in 1956, was recognised by the Norwegian Nobel Committee for its efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
It recounts the two nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.
One didn’t feel any real connection between the lovers, but maybe that, too, was wanted, given that the callous American sailor treats marriage to a geisha during a shore leave in Nagasaki as a lark.
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