War book title. Has to do with Atom Bomb in New Mexico?

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Tyler

Well I think it's the same book. I know there's this book that starts off like these kids were outside and a bomb went off I think and they were running back to their house but one of them didn't get there in time and died. Further on in the book the kid discovers that this other kid who he had thought to be his friend was actually a spy after he finds out his family is raising German Shepards and he ends up getting chased and climbs down this mountainous area and gets shot at by the kids father and a helicopter comes and kills the father and the boy. Any help is appreciated.
Oh by the way the cover of it has a kid wearing sunglasses with an explosion in the reflection.
Any idea what the name is?

Answer
"The Gadget" by Paul Zindel
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/474403.The_Gadget

"After Steven's brother Jackson dies from airplane bombings over their house, his mother decides that it would be best if he moved with his father to his new job. His father, who is a physicist, is assigned to a top secret project, with other talented scientists near Los Alamos, New Mexico, involving the nuclear bomb that will hopefully end the war. ...On his first day of school, he meets a young man just a few years older named Alexei. Alexei lives off the base a few hundred yards away but still attends base activities because his father supplies guard dogs to the guards at the base."

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