On May 24, 1957, Las Vegas News Bureau photographer Don English snapped a striking image of a model wearing a mushroom cloud swimsuit who was quickly immortalized as "Miss Atomic Bomb." This ...

Dalton's own notebook shows that his atomic theory preceded his work on marsh gas, and his notes for a lecture delivered in 1810 give a history of his ideas which agrees with all the facts.1.

The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making & Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb Garrett M. Graff. Avid Reader, $35 (624p) ISBN 978-1-6680-9239-2 ...