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 ...

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 ...

As a founding member, he hoped to locate Miss Atomic Bomb for the grand opening ceremony. What started as simple curiosity evolved into an all-consuming obsession.His investigation filled stacks ...

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 on was a stage name he found printed under an ...

I was standing at Trinity, ground zero, where the first atomic bomb exploded at 5:30 a.m. on July 16, 1945. Seismographs in Tucson detected the explosion from 280 miles away. The test bomb ...

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 ...

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 archival ...