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US
/ˌhɪˈɹoʊʃɪmə, ˌhɪɹoʊˈʃimə/
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NOUN
- a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
How To Use Hiroshima In A Sentence
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Dresden, the Blitz, Coventry and Caen, the gas chambers and the gulags – with, more recently Iraq, Afghanistan, and the wars in Africa – demonstrate, in particular, our leaders' propensities to hijack science for wholesale murder. Steven Pinker is wrong – we live in the bloodiest times ever | letters
- Some news accounts warned that its explosive force upon impact would be 350,000 megatons, eight million times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.
- I was a crew member of the Enola Gay, the B29 that dropped a bomb on Hiroshima.
- Her tattered clothes look as if the woman herself has come through Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Christianity Today
- Nobody who survived Hiroshima 60 years ago today was closer to the explosion than Mrs Takakura, and she holds a special place in a group of 'hibakusha' - the atomic people -- Rees OpEdNews - Quicklink: The burning and the haunting: how for some the nightmare of Hiroshima will never end
- The New Yorker today is just as willing to publish a barely illustrated, three-part, 30,000-word jeremiad on climate change as founding editor Harold Ross was happy to devote an entire issue to one article on the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. Good Magazine: The 51 Best Magazines Ever
- One character is in the Resistance, another witnesses Hiroshima, another goes to a concentration camp, others stay at home.
- Still, it can be said that Hiroshima is veverywhere in postwar and contemporary fiction -- in its themes of futurelessness and absurdity, and its predilection for violent orengeful behavior by heroes and anti-heroes alike. Greg Mitchell: Writers and The Bomb: Novel Takes on the Nuclear Age
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- But ceding it led inexorably to megadeath, including Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Auschwitz and Belsen. Memories of the Falklands