The Miss Atomic Bomb photo played a key role in shaping Las Vegas’ identity as a city of fantasy and spectacle. Yet little ...

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 ...

Robert Oppenheimer helped lead the U.S. effort to build the atomic bomb. But he was almost bounced ... surrounded by an enormous mushroom cloud some 40,000 across. The nuclear age had begun ...

Courtesy of Barbara Kent The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation ... soil and sent a mushroom cloud up to 70,000 feet ...

He was on his way back to the office when the first atomic bomb ever used in combat ... but he watched the signature mushroom cloud from less than two miles from ground zero.

The mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, marked the last use of an atomic bomb in combat. Carrier-based U.S. Navy aircraft tear up a bridge over the Yalu River. The war ended ...

The atomic age was ... The visuals of mushroom clouds rising over Japanese cities remain one of the most harrowing symbols of human destruction. Those bombs ended a war but launched a new era ...

Reviewing Annie Jacobsen’s recent “Nuclear War: A Scenario,” I had to put its mushroom cloud cover face down between chapters, sometimes between paragraphs. In Bomb Books, all sentences ...

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