The photo, taken in 1957, authentically shows a Las Vegas showgirl posing in a bathing suit featuring a mushroom cloud made of cotton. However... What's False: The image was taken for a publicity ...

On the afternoon of December 2, 1942, the world changed forever. Enrico Fermi helped engineer the first controlled, self-sustained nuclear fission reaction that day at the University of Chicago's ...

Ominously scary yet sweetly silly, weren't they? Flash back to "The Flash," the term that made an atomic mushroom cloud sound like a popped camera bulb. And to those grade-school air-raid drills in ...

Nonoka Koga was a little shocked when she arrived as an international exchange student at Richland High, home of the Bombers. There on the gym floor was a big green “R” over a mushroom cloud from an ...

A high school in Richland, Wash., is emblazoned with a mushroom cloud. But some are asking for better ways to recognize the city’s history-altering past. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America ...

Remember the 1964 anti-Barry Goldwater ad, the one with the girl pulling petals from a daisy, the camera zooming into her eye and an atomic mushroom cloud exploding? It was a terrifying campaign spot ...