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>>320458 Indeed, but most of the complexity involved in those sort of solutions is due to efficiancy, namely minimizing the amount of fissile material needed but still producing the desired result - at one end you have gun designs, simple, effective, very inneficiant and wasteful - at the other end something like say a floating core implosion device with fusion boosting - complicated, very difficut to test and itterate properly, lots of room for error, but fissile material needed is less than half(or even a third) of a gun device.
As always, material availability(and quality with high efficiancy designs) is the limiting factor - if it wasnt, hell why bother with nuclear devices? skip straight to thermonuclear, the most efficiant of the lot. (>>320405here btw)
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