Alive: The Walker in the Dust, book 2

To whomever it may concern:
They named it before it fell, when it was still a star in the evening sky, among so many others. So many people died. And for many generations afterwards people survived and bore children… Babies underground, babies in vaults, babies in caves, babies near trash, babies eating trash… And living. And the world was eventually… It’s still destroyed. But where this certain bomb fell, the place had become something else.
They gave it a name before it fell. “Wormwood,” Th...