Letters from Under the Mushroom Cloud

"My father died two months after I entered the army in 1956. My Signal Corp unit was sent to Camp Desert Rock, Nevada to cover the atmospheric atomic bomb tests in 1957. While there, I started writing letters to my dad, which was probably my way of coping with losing him. This book is a collection of those letters. I am now 83 years old. I still write letters to my father, and I always will."—Ray Hoy