THREE friends, TWO secrets, ONE lie, and the summer that changed their lives. The world is ripe for destruction in 1953. The Korean War drags on and the Rosenbergs are executed as spies. Senator Joseph McCarthy convinces the country communists are infiltrating the government, and the threat of nuclear war festered in the collective consciousness of the nation. While the nation worries about communist bombs, sixteen-year-old Bernadette Vaughn holds court in the family bomb shelter, … [Read more...] about Atomic Summer by Elaine D Walsh