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Atomic Hamburger
Introduction
The Boyers, a sheepherding family in Idaho decide to move into the fast food business when the Federal lands they used to graze their sheep are turned into a Federal nuclear energy research center. Hoping to become rich with the expected economic boom of the nuclear research facility, their diner becomes the main place where the characters meet and interact.
Howard McCracken's Story
A young man, Howard McCracken, after the suicide of his mother, decides to become a psychiatrist and he ends up on the front-lines of World War II working under General Patton.
Nuclear Scientists' Visit
Two young nuclear scientists mentored by Einstein go to Idaho to work in the nuclear research facilities and end up lunching at The Atomic Hamburger.
Novel Focus
The novel focuses on the war periods of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam as it follows several families from the 1920s through the 1970s while it explores mental disorders and posttraumatic stress as it relates to combat experience and other situations and their relations to suicide.
