Widely known as “Miss Atomic Bomb,” she had long been identified as a model named Lee Merlin — but, as it turns out, this was only a stage name. As researcher and historian Robert Friedrichs ...

“We have 7.5 million images in the LVCVA Archive, and the ‘Miss Atomic Bomb’ photo is one of the most requested images that we have,” said archivist Kelli Luchs of the Las Vegas Convention ...

The mushroom cloud became a visual symbol of the atomic bomb. In honor of the discovery, the Atomic Museum will display a temporary exhibit dedicated to Friedrichs' research.

Miss Atomic Bomb to Ali: Las Vegas’s 75 greatest photos presented Forgive the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority for hoarding. They’ve socked away our city’s history snapshots.

They are not an art collective, simply a community of likeminded ... a to-scale replica in black-lacquered hardwood of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. The piece lends an air of ...