[+] 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.
The real reason why nuclear weapons were used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki was that the Japanese refused to surrender and at the time of the US bombings Russia was preparing to attack both Manchuria and Korea. USA was well aware th Japanese had the atomic bomb and did not want the technology to fall into Soviet hands.he atomic bomb had nothing to do with the end of the war at all. The Vice Chairman of the U.S. Bombing Survey Paul Nitze wrote (pg. 36-37, 44-45): [I] concluded that even without the atomic bomb, Japan was likely to surrender in a matter of months.