Can you build a nuke out of smoke detectors?

Smoke detectors are an ingredient. You would need a certain smoke detector with Americium to conduct said nuclear experiment. Reactors are what build the nukes, actually. One cannot make a raw nuke withiut a reactor *to my knowledge*. Now, I'm not going step by step of building a reactor, but you need Americium, Thorium, and Radium. read more

David learned about the tiny amount of americium-241 found in smoke detectors. So he contacted smoke detector companies, and claimed that he needed a large number of them for a school project. One company sold him about a hundred broken detectors for a dollar apiece. read more