Claim: A photo authentically shows the winner of a 1950s “Miss Atomic Bomb” beauty pageant. The caption of the post reads,Miss Atomic Bomb, the icon of the National Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas. The National Atomic Testing Museum is part of the Directory of Historical Records Organizations. English, a photographer for the Las Vegas News Bureau, a promotional agency that is part of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, hired her to pose for him on May 24, 1957. According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, it has been published in "hundreds of publications worldwide" and, as of June 2022, remained "the most published photo in the Las Vegas News Bureau Collection."

Source: Los Angeles Times June 28, 2024 13:45 UTC