[+] more examples [-] hide examples [+] Example sentences [-] Hide examples. 2. : lacking any feeling â If a part of your body (such as a foot or leg) is asleep, it is not able to feel anything for a brief time, usually because you have kept it in an awkward position for too long.
The US was justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan already killed over 2,000 people in the Pearl Harbor bombings. We had done nothing to provoke them, unless you count our cutting off trade with Japan, limiting their oil supply.
Report Abuse. There are a number of reasons why the US used the atomic weapons on Japan. The targets of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were chosen because of the production toward the war effort that was made there.e really wanted to use the atomic bomb. There were three reasons for that. First, they wanted to show the strength of America to the communist Soviet Union, their new enemy. Second, America spent so much money on the Manhattan project, and they needed to produce a result.