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Barefoot Gen: What Nuclear War Looks Like to a 6 Year Old
Most of his acquaintances died due to the consequential fires, trapped beneath the rubble of their wrecked homes, crying out in agony as the radiation slowly melted their skin and swelled their bodies to what Nakazawa would later describe as human watermelons. Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa Last Gasp, 2004. When he was twenty-two years old, Nakazawa[...]