Unmaking the Bomb: Environmental Cleanup and the Politics of Impossibility
- 2023 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, Ecology & Environment (Adult Nonfiction)
"Unmaking the Bomb" investigates the politics of waste, exposure, and cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a former weapons complex in Washington State. Once the heart of American plutonium production, Hanford is now tasked with managing toxic materials that will long outlast their regulatory containers. Author Shannon Cram examines the embodied uncertainties and structural impossibilities integral to that effort.