This detail from the Hiroshima Panels by Iri and Toshi Maruki depicts a deranged young woman wandering aimlessly in the atomic wasteland. Due to the tremendous size of the panel, I choose to show only this detail of the young woman. Her clothes were either blasted off her or went up in flames, and her charred body bares several ugly open gashes.

The truly ghastly thing about this painting is the expression on the girl's face. She is cross-eyed with terror from all that she has witnessed - she has been driven mad. This once lovely girl is oblivious to her own blistered and burned body... mindless of the gore she trudges through.

The artists also wrote prose to accompany their visual works. An excerpt from their poem, Ghosts, reads: "Ghosts in procession. Instantly stripped of all clothes by the explosion. They had burns from breasts to legs. The purple swellings on the skin were soon burst and peeled off... hanging down like pieces of cloth. Numerous ghosts from the inferno of the atomic explosion... lifting hands up, carried heavy hearts and feet. They fell down in grieving heaps... and died one after another."