Sample Sentences forHiroshima (editor-reviewed)
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The United States detonated a nuclear weapon over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and then another above Nagasaki on August 9th before Japan surrendered.Hiroshima = port city in Japan that was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
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They estimate that hundreds of times as much radioactive material was released from the Chernobyl accident as was released by the bombing of Hiroshima.Hiroshima = Japanese city that suffered an atomic bomb
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At POW Camp 10-D, on the far side of the mountains by Hiroshima, prisoner Ferron Cummins felt a concussion roll down from the hills, and the air warmed strangely. (source)Hiroshima = Japanese port city that was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
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Japanese people from Hiroshima paraded silently past Windsor Castle. (source)Hiroshima = port city in Japan that was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
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We were like the Japanese who survived the initial blast of the Hiroshima bomb. (source)
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It was like being born in Germany after World War II, being from Japan after Pearl Harbor, or America after Hiroshima. (source)Hiroshima = city in Japan that was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
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For the record, the Hiroshima atom bomb was a thousand times more powerful. (source)Hiroshima = city in Japan that was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
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I drop bombs like Hiroshima, (source)
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Hiroshima had 140,000 dead, Nagasaki 70,000. (source)
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Not many Americans knew how much worse it had been than Hiroshima, for instance.† (source)
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Or for that matter to Hiroshima and Chernobyl.† (source)
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That night Papa burned the flag he had brought with him from Hiroshima thirty-five years earlier.† (source)
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The Hiroshima A-bomb used the gun method.† (source)
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At least with nuclear weapons you know they're scary—Hiroshima, Bikini—but with cyber, nobody knows how much damage they'll cause if they let them loose, and they're merrily sticking them into each others' infrastructure like candy canes on a doomsday Christmas tree.† (source)
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These failures have cast a dark shadow over humanity: two World Wars, countless civil wars, the senseless chain of assassinations — Gandhi, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Sadat, Rabin — bloodbaths in Cambodia and Nigeria, India and Pakistan, Ireland and Rwanda, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Sarajevo and Kosovo; the inhumanity in the gulag and the tragedy of Hiroshima.† (source)
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Khrushchev also knows quite well that the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had an explosive force equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT.† (source)
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