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hiroshima
/hɪˈɹoʊʃɪmə/
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What does hiroshima mean?
noun
- (figuratively) A catastrophe.
proper noun
- A prefecture in southwestern Honshu, Japan.
- The capital city of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan; the target of the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.
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proper noun
- The 1945 atomic bombing of the city.
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/hɪˈɹoʊʃɪmə/
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This was mainly to dispel rumors of lingering high radiation levels there, as well as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Three weeks later, on 6 August, the first uranium-fueled nuclear bomb, a gun-type weapon code-named LITTLE BOY, was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.