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Atom Bomb Baby

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Conelrad [Link] and Robert Friedrichs of the National Nuclear Security Administration [Link] are trying to locate Miss Atomic Bomb [Link], the iconic symbol of Las Vegas' strange 1950s love affair with fissionable material. Her name was probably Lee Merlin, and according to Conelrad's list of known facts [Link] she lived in the Bali Hai Apartments while in Vegas. Obviously, a woman of style and taste.

I saw quite a few photographs of Miss AB last week in Las Vegas; she was featured prominently at the Atomic Testing Museum [Link]

[via PCL]