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

A temporary exhibit highlighting the woman in the photo, the mystery behind her name and the man who solved it opens in June ...

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

He tracked down the photographer and interviewed former showgirls who confirmed Miss Atomic Bomb’s stage name. But the woman’s real name still eluded him.

There were so many nuclear explosions outside of Las Vegas in the ’50s and early ’60s that the ... the roomies and their significant others were sitting down to dinner. Will an atomic bomb go off next ...

Courtesy LVCVA “Las Vegas played a vibrant and unique role in the Atomic Age, and Miss Atomic Bomb has always been a symbol of that era’s colorful history,” says Joseph Kent, Chief Community ...

Yet all those living near the bomb site weren ... 65 miles north of Las Vegas, where a hundred aboveground tests were conducted before a moratorium on atomic testing took effect in 1992.

If the Sphere in Las Vegas isn’t already ... like the National Atomic Testing Museum, where you can learn in the shade of the blast where tourists watched the bombs go off.