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What does Hiroshima mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Hiroshima? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. A city in Honshu, Japan, devastated by the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.
  2. (figuratively) catastrophe.
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The detonation of an atomic bomb above Hiroshima was the starting gun for modern Japan.
It is also the anniversary of the dropping of the first atom bomb on Hiroshima, to be followed by the bomb for Nagasaki.
The FBI noted Einstein's fervent opposition to the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The blast was 600 times as violent as the Hiroshima atom bomb and shot a nuclear cloud more than 17 miles high into the air.
As with the Transfiguration and Hiroshima, the stories of the Sudan and the massacre of the innocents under Herod are now fused in my mind.
Enigmatic and difficult on a first pass, Hiroshima Mon Amour is a film that rewards multiple viewings.

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