Green remarked, "The interesting thing here is that Las Vegas managed to make the mushroom cloud a tourist attraction, so we lost that tourist attraction but didn't lose the federal funding or the ...

The photo was captured on May 24, 1957, by Las Vegas News Bureau photographer Don English, featuring Mahoney as a Copa showgirl in the Nevada desert wearing a mushroom cloud swimsuit made of cotton.

Creating the Atomic Age photo Mahoney was working as a performer at the Sands Hotel Copa showroom in Las Vegas in 1957 when she was featured in English’s photo. Inspired by the mushroom cloud ...

Soon afterward, she’d see the mushroom cloud ... The site is about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Joseph Kent, director of education at the National Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas ...

The photo was captured by Las Vegas News Bureau photographer Don English and released in 1957. The photo features a beaming Copa showgirl wearing a mushroom cloud swimsuit in the Nevada desert.

After the April 22, 1952, televised broadcast of the bomb, atomic culture swept the nation, and Las Vegas became the epicenter of the craze. The mushroom cloud associated with the bomb became an ...