Last week brought a gleam in the darkness, a first soft glow in the terrifying gloom which seven months before, after the blinding flash over Hiroshima, had engulfed the world. Perhaps there was a ...

We finally know the true identity of the woman behind the iconic “Miss Atomic Bomb” photo. After 25 years of investigation, the Atomic Museum said in a news release that founding museum member Robert ...

One year old last week, the Atomic Age was offered, as one of its birthday presents, Atomic Power!, the first moving picture to portray it not as cloak-&-Geiger-counter melodrama but as deadly serious ...

Christopher Nolan believes J. Robert Oppenheimer is the most important person who ever lived. “By unleashing nuclear power,” the film director concludes, “he gave us the power to destroy ourselves.” ...

Nuclear reactors were originally designed to make bombs. They still do, in what are called dual-use reactors. These produce plutonium while simultaneously generating electricity. Chernobyl was a ...

The workings of history often seem inevitable: Bygone decisions appear inescapable, and the viability of alternate pathways easily discounted. Recent history is, however, recent—important moments not ...

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 an archival ...

During the early 1950s America went bonkers over the budding atomic age. The growth of Las Vegas, for example, was partially due to a new bomb-testing site situated 65 miles northwest of the gambling ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Few things are more powerful sources of nostalgia than candy. As long as it's not one of the sadly discontinued candies we wish would come ...

Three times a month, a busload of tourists heads to a Nevada desert test site, where they marvel at the lake-sized Sedan Crater created in 1962 by the below-ground explosion of a 104-kiloton hydrogen ...

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 an archival ...

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 now-shuttered Sands Hotel, was ...