Japanese target of the first atomic bomb on 6 August 1945

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

a great film, originally made for cable, about events leading up to the A-bomb being dropped on Japan

The first use in warfare of a nuclear weapon occurred on August 6, 1945, at 8:16:02 a.m. over Hiroshima, Japan. In an instant 80,000 to 140,000 people were killed and 100,000 more were seriously injured. Hiroshima ceased to exist as a functioning city. The bomb exploded almost directly over the center of the city. Two square miles of the city were completely leveled by the bomb. See; Gun-Type Weapon, Little Boy, Manhattan Project.

The Japanese city that was atom-bombed at 8.15am on 6th August 1945. About 60,000-70,000 people were killed by the Hiroshima bombing. The bomb was named 'Little Boy'. By the end of December 1945, the total number of people who had died in the blast and later from radiation and other after-effects had reached 140,000.(see also Nagasaki)

One of two Japanese cities on which the United States dropped atomic bombs in 1945; devastation of these cities caused Japanese surrender without invasion of home islands. (p. 856)

Hiroshima, Japan, a city of 344,000 persons, was the target of the first atomic bombing in history. On August 6, 1945, 78,000 Japanese were killed in Hiroshima and 100,000 more were injured. Over 96 percent of the city's buildings were destroyed.

The Japanese city of is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshū, the largest of Japan's islands. Geographical location (City Hall). It is most known throughout the world as the first city in history subjected to nuclear warfare with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II.

Hiroshima (ISBN 0-679-72103-7) is the title of a magazine article written by Pulitzer Prize winner John Hersey that appeared in The New Yorker'' in August 1946, exactly one year after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan, at 8:15 a.m., August 6, 1945. The article was soon made into a book.

Hiroshima is an American jazz fusion band formed in 1974 by Sansei Japanese American Dan Kuramoto (wind instruments and band leader), June Kuramoto (koto), Johnny Mori (percussion and taiko), & Danny Yamamoto (keyboards and drums). Named for the Japanese city of Hiroshima they are best known for the fusing of Japanese music and other forms of world music into their playing. Their early jazz-pop R&B sound gave them a huge following among the African American community.

Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to the dropping of the atomic bombs by the United States on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki toward the end of World War II. Except as actors, no Americans took part in the production. The three-hour film was made for television and evidently had no theatrical release, but is available on DVD for home viewing.