E. Tammy Kim reviews “Korean Nuclear Diaspora,” by Yuko Takahashi, a new ethnography of Korean survivors of the atomic-bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War.

English posed in the lobby for a photo with a life-sized cardboard cutout of "Miss Atomic Bomb." Friedrichs jokes it's his favorite of all the photos he's collected of her in 25 years.

It is 1000 times more powerful than any atomic bomb. When the atomic bomb was dropped on Japan on August 6, about 1,40,000 people were killed and 70 cities were destroyed.

Friedrichs first set out to find Miss Atomic Bomb around 2000. It would take him more than two decades to unravel the mystery of Lee A. Merlin's true identity.

The Miss Atomic Bomb photo played a key role in shaping Las Vegas’ identity as a city of fantasy and spectacle. Yet little was known about the star — until now.

Nation World Miss Atomic Bomb: The woman, the mystery and the man who solved it The Miss Atomic Bomb photo played a key role in shaping Las Vegas’ identity as a city of fantasy and spectacle. Yet ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — 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 ...