Nuclear reactors and atomic bombs both rely on nuclear fission, but does that mean that a reactor could turn into an atomic bomb in the right circumstances?

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Rapidly cooled Two microscope images of the metal sphere that contained the new alloy. (Courtesy: University of Florence/CC BY-SA 4.0) One of my favourite books about physics is The Second Kind of ...

In 1962, the United States detonated a nuclear bomb 400 kilometers above Earth in one of the most dangerous Cold War experiments ever attempted. The explosion created a powerful EMP, disabled ...