Courtesy of Barbara Kent The flakes were fallout from the Manhattan Project’s Trinity test, the world’s first atomic bomb detonation ... the director of the Los Alamos Health Group, a team ...

Most people were silent." Los Alamos National Laboratory After the first atomic bomb explosion (seen here from 10,000 yards away, in a time series from .006 seconds to .081 seconds after ...

The mushroom cloud had become the defining visual symbol of the atomic bomb, a striking and dramatic ... which was sponsored by the Los Alamos National Laboratory on March 23, 1955.

Protesters want the Ypsilanti Township project shut down due to allegations it has "top secret military purposes" and would ...

In a test, it had exploded with a force nearly 1,000 times as powerful as the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima ... Fermi invited Dr. Garwin to join him at Los Alamos, the base set amid the ...

National Sense of Urgency and Unity Existential threat: Fear that Nazi Germany would build an atomic bomb first created extraordinary ... the training for the bomb delivery, and the Los Alamos ...

The Los Alamos home where Manhattan Project scientific director J. Robert Oppenheimer lived with his family during World War II has never been open to the public. That will change soon if a ...

Historian Robert Friedrichs became obsessed with uncovering the true identity of Miss Atomic Bomb, the showgirl in a 1957 promo photo wearing a mushroom cloud swimsuit who seemed to vanish from the ...

UPDATE (1:30 p.m.) - The highway is now open. ORIGINAL STORY: A head-on crash closed Highway 135 east of Los Alamos Monday morning. According to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...