Las Vegas News Bureau photographer Don English snapped a striking image of a model wearing a mushroom cloud swimsuit who was quickly immortalized as "Miss Atomic Bomb." This famous photo was captured ...

Little Boy is hailed as the ‘bomb that changed the world’. For the men who developed the atomic bomb and masterminded the mission, their families and the rest of the world finally know the top ...

The Atomic Bomb Dome, also known as the Genbaku Dome, stands as a haunting yet powerful reminder of the devastation wrought ...

Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb? Oppenheimer’s name has become “a metaphor for mass death beneath a mushroom cloud,” in the words of Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin ...

With the mushroom cloud becoming a defining symbol of the atomic bomb, Mahoney was transformed into “Miss Atomic Bomb” and cemented Las Vegas as the “cultural epicenter of the Atomic Age.” ...