All Robert Friedrichs had to go on was a stage name he found printed under an archival newspaper photo that showed her posing ...

Robert Friedrichs, a historian, spent two decades finding 'Miss Atomic Bomb'. The search began around 2000. 'Miss Atomic Bomb ...

The blinding burst of light from a nuclear detonation follows, yet it quickly fades into an unexpectedly small mushroom cloud ...

After 25 years of exhaustive research and investigative effort, historian and founding Atomic Museum member Robert Friedrichs has uncovered the true identity of the woman behind one of the most iconic ...

Robert Oppenheimer helped lead the U.S. effort to build the atomic bomb ... surrounded by an enormous mushroom cloud some 40,000 across. The nuclear age had begun—yet still under wraps.

The Trinity Test—the first ever detonation of an atomic bomb in July 1945—generated a blinding burst of live and a mushroom cloud that surged into the sky. To simulate it without CGI ...

and play a top-secret role in the United States’ development of the atomic bomb. Wu would cap off her research career with an experiment that overthrew a fundamental law of nature, only to be ...

Which leads to the question: Why in the world did the military bomb its own country? Again and again? On May 15, 1955, the U.S. military finished a series of atomic tests in southern Nevada. The front ...