Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility

"A powerfully researched and important look at the ravages of nuclear waste remediation."—​One of the Best Indie Books of 2023, Kirkus Reviews

What does it mean to reckon with a contaminated world? In Unmaking the Bomb, Shannon Cram considers the complex social politics of this question and the regulatory infrastructures designed to answer it. Blending history, ethnography, and memoir, she investigates remediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a former weapons complex in Washi...