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 ...

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 ...