• Hiroshima

    Full definition of Hiroshima

    Proper noun

    Hiroshima

    (plural Hiroshimas)
    1. A city in Honshu, Japan, devastated by the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945.
    2. (figuratively) catastrophe.
      • 2011 April, Michael Joseph Gross, “A Declaration of Cyber-War”, Vanity Fair:Stuxnet is the Hiroshima of cyber-war.
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