The Atomic Museum has opened its latest exhibit, "Miss Atomic Bomb: Icon of the Atomic Age," on Friday in the museum's Atomic ...

Yet all those living near the bomb site weren't warned ... of irradiated soil and sent a mushroom cloud up to 70,000 feet in the sky. In this experimental atomic detonation, only three of the ...

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A black-and-white photo of a Las Vegas dancer posing in a mushroom-cloud swimsuit became iconic of America's "atomic age," but for decades her identity was unknown. The mystery has finally been solved ...

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

Friedrichs first set out to find Miss Atomic Bomb around 2000. It would take him more than two decades to unravel the mystery of Lee A. Merlin's true identity. Ukraine Drone Strike Destroys ...

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