Hiroshima maiden

== English == === Noun === Hiroshima maiden (plural Hiroshima maidens) (historical) Any of a group of Japanese women who were disfigured by the thermal flash from the fission bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, and who subsequently went on a highly publicized journey to obtain reconstructive surgery in the United States in 1955. Synonym: A-bomb maiden ==== Further reading ==== Hiroshima maiden on Wikipedia.Wikipedia