August 7, 1957, was a busy day at the Nevada Test Site. On this day in history, Operation Plumbbob was underway in the desert ...

Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site in southeastern Nye County began on Jan. 27, 1951, with the detonation of “Shot Able,” a 1-kiloton atmospheric bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat as part of ...

August 6, 1945, marked a significant milestone in world history — on this day, the U.S. detonated the first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima, Japan.

This July marked 80 years since the U.S. government detonated the first atomic bomb in the desert of southern New Mexico, marking the start of the nuclear age — and an ongoing nightmare for the people ...

Between 1951 and 1992, hundreds of nuclear tests were performed, mostly underground, in the desert outside Las Vegas. But it was the massive mushroom clouds from the above-ground nuclear blasts ...

She had no idea of the impact she had on the marketing of Las Vegas.” Anna Lee Mahoney, born in the Bronx in 1927, would become Miss Atomic Bomb thirty years later.

Friedrichs 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 ...

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 ...