then of course the mushroom cloud would be picked up as a titillating marketing gimmick. A few beauty queens were deployed as “Miss Atomic Bomb” and the like, wearing mushroom-shaped headgear ...

“We have 7.5 million images in the LVCVA Archive,” said archivist Kelli Luchs, “and the ‘Miss Atomic Bomb’ photo is one of ...

It wasn’t going to be easy to track down the woman who came to be known as “Miss Atomic Bomb.” All Robert ... in the shape of a fluffy mushroom cloud. In the photo, the high-heeled showgirl ...

It includes a 1939 letter, signed by Albert Einstein, alerting President Roosevelt to the dangers of a German atomic bomb programme ... the atomic flash, the mushroom cloud and radioactive ...

Contact: j.murdock@newsweek.com On this day 75 years ago, amid the backdrop of the Second World War, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the ... of the mushroom cloud from the atomic detonation ...

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 ...

Video from the tests show a surreal visual. Soldiers in trenches watch as an atomic bomb goes off in the distance, the mushroom cloud billowing up into the sky. Shockwaves shake the cameras and ...

When he found declassified U.S. civil-defense footage of soldiers maneuvering in the glare of the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb, he was “absolutely amazed and wanted to learn more about their ...

The photo, taken in 1957, authentically shows a Las Vegas showgirl posing in a bathing suit featuring a mushroom ... cloud made of cotton. The caption of the post reads, Miss Atomic Bomb ...