Hiroshima. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002

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Hiroshima


(heer-uh-SHEE-muh, huh-ROH-shuh-muh) A Japanese city on which the United States dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare, on August 6, 1945. After the devastation of the bombing, Hiroshima was largely rebuilt.	1

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