• Winner of the 2024 Cultural and Political Ecology Outstanding Book Award, American Association of Geographers

• Finalist for the 2024 Ludwik Fleck Prize, Society for Social Studies of Science

• Finalist for the 2024 Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE Award)

• Finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award

• One of the Best Indie Books of 2023, Kirkus Reviews

"In this deeply unsettling book, Shannon Cram plumbs the mangled intimacies of the nuclear across scales (from cellular to regulatory, bodily to planetary) and, through a series of figures, renders the surreal world of nuclear cleanup, remediation, risk assessment, and its forms of impossible governance. Unmaking the Bomb is an incredible read." —Shiloh Krupar, Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor, Georgetown University

"Unmaking the Bomb is a multimodal text: part ethnography, part history of science, part memoir. Cram's work is much more than an environmental justice study of nuclear damage. It is a critical assessment of how a society produces monumental forms of harm and then crafts itself to normalize those dangers as essential and potentially even banal. The overall effect is extraordinarily powerful and important. This is no small accomplishment." —Joseph P. Masco, Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago