{"product_id":"unmaking-the-bomb-9780520395121","title":"Unmaking the Bomb","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 Washington State. Home to the majority of the nation's high-level nuclear waste and its largest environmental cleanup, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that will long outlast the United States and its institutional capacities. Cram examines the embodied uncertainties and structural impossibilities integral to that endeavor. In particular, this lyrical book engages in a kind of narrative contamination, toggling back and forth between cleanup's administrative frames and the stories that overspill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In prose that’s both calm and solidly grounded in cited research, Cram presents. . . .a quietly devastating indictment that calls to mind such environmentalist classics as Rachel Carson’s \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e.\" * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: On Telling Impossible Stories \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Tender \u003cbr\u003e 2. Anatomy of a Phantom \u003cbr\u003e 3. Rational Mutants \u003cbr\u003e 4. Body Burden \u003cbr\u003e 5. Trespassing \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Here, in the Plutonium \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e References \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402970046807,"sku":"9780520395121","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520395121.jpg?v=1730481996","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unmaking-the-bomb-9780520395121","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}