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 iconic ...

A 110-degree day in Las Vegas, a city dedicated to entertainment and capitalism, seems a strange place to commemorate the 80 th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Yet Las Vegas has its ...

Nuclear testing wasn’t all that went underground in the 1950s in Las Vegas. The identity of the woman in the Atomic Age’s most iconic photograph was also buried. On May 24, 1957, a Sands Copa Room ...

Miss Atomic Bomb, Sands Copa Girl Lee Merlin, posing in the Las Vegas desert, May 24, 1957. Credit: Don English/Las Vegas News Bureau Photo by: Las Vegas News Bureau Archive It wasn't going to be easy ...

The LINQ unveiled a newly reimagined 130-foot digital marquee last week, bringing updated LED technology to a three-sided sign along the Las Vegas Strip. Almost 100 shelters pets found loving new ...

The National Atomic Testing Museum features artifacts and exhibits dedicated to nuclear testing at the Nevada National Security Site, previously called the Nevada Test Site, and is located just north ...

Nuclear testing wasn’t the only thing that went underground in the 1950s in Las Vegas. The true identity of the woman in the Atomic Age’s most iconic photograph was also buried. On May 24, 1957, a ...

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 archival ...