All Robert Friedrichs had to go on was a stage name printed under an archival newspaper photo of her posing with other Las ...

It's a cotton mushroom cloud, meant to look like a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb. RASCOE: That's Joseph Kent, a curator at the Atomic Museum in Las Vegas. The woman became known as Miss ...

The photo, taken in 1957, authentically shows a Las Vegas showgirl posing in a bathing suit featuring a mushroom ... cloud made of cotton. The caption of the post reads, Miss Atomic Bomb ...

A single photo sparked a 25-year search in Las Vegas. Historian Robert Friedrichs became obsessed with uncovering the true ...

“We have 7.5 million images in the LVCVA Archive,” said archivist Kelli Luchs, “and the ‘Miss Atomic Bomb’ photo is one of ...

English posed in the lobby for a photo with a life-sized cardboard cutout of “Miss Atomic Bomb.” Friedrichs jokes it’s his ...

It wasn’t going to be easy to track down the woman who came to be known as “Miss Atomic Bomb ... in a swimsuit in the shape of a fluffy mushroom cloud. In the photo, the high-heeled ...

The mushroom cloud had become the defining visual symbol of the atomic bomb, a striking and dramatic representation of nuclear power. From the earliest tests at Enewetak Atoll to the Nevada Test ...

After 25 years of searching, retired scientist Robert Friedrichs uncovers the identity of the iconic model, Anna Lee Mahoney, ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb ... stand on one's feet. A cloud of dust rose to a height of eight kilometers (five miles). The top of the atomic mushroom reached a height ...