Q. Bikini Day is observed in which of the following countries?
Solution:
- Bikini Day is observed in Japan in memory of the victims of the hydrogen bomb explosion on March 1, 1954. It is so named because radioactive ashes from the US explosion fell on fishing vessels in the vicinity of Bikini Atoll, where the explosion took place.
- Twenty-three nuclear tests were carried out at Bikini between 1946 and 1958.
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