In 1962, Louis is just like any eight-year-old boy-curious and prattling off an endless string of questions. And then the seizures begin. Meanwhile, the Cold War seems to be breeding erratic behavior. Louis's family lives just twenty miles from a US Air Force base that is part of the US deterrent strategy of Mutually Assured Destruction. When a wealthy civilian neighbor begins building a bomb shelter to protect his family against a Soviet nuclear...