1. Hiroshima - Noun
2. Hiroshima - Proper noun
a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area
Source: WordNetEvery positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. Pablo Picasso
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake. Viktor Frankl
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws. Albert Einstein
If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905. Albert Einstein
I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide. J. G. Ballard
Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin. Bruce Sterling