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

English posed in the lobby for a photo with a life-sized cardboard cutout of “Miss Atomic Bomb.” Friedrichs jokes it’s his ...

Friedrich first set out to find Miss Atomic Bomb around 2000. The Atomic Museum was set to open in Las Vegas in a few years, and as a founding member, he was “hoping against hope” that she was ...

A single photo sparked a 25-year search in Las Vegas LAS VEGAS -- It wasn't going to be easy to track down the woman who came to be known as “Miss Atomic Bomb." All Robert Friedrichs had to go ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — It wasn't going to be easy to track down the woman who came to be known as “Miss Atomic Bomb." All Robert Friedrichs had to go on was a stage name he found printed under an ...

May 24, 1957. Mahoney, a showgirl at now-shuttered Sands Hotel, was known for decades by her stage name, Lee Merlin, or as "Miss Atomic Bomb." (Don English/Las Vegas News Bureau Collection ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — It wasn't going to be easy to track down the woman who came to be known as “Miss Atomic Bomb." All Robert Friedrichs had to go on was a stage name he found printed under an ...

Miss Atomic Bomb Mystery This image provided by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority shows Anna Lee Mahoney posing for a photo in Las Vegas, Nev., May 24, 1957. Mahoney, a showgirl at ...