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The problem is extracting the U-235 from the U-238.
Actually, this is why every stinky, pissed-off terrorist in the world doesn't have a nuke stashed in his closet. When the scientists working on the Manhattan Project realized they needed a shitload of U-235 to make a bomb, they almost abandoned the whole project. Mainly because sucking the U-235 out of a pile of U-238 is so hard.
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In short, it would work. Dumbass. The complicated technology's not in making the bomb, it's in refining the materials. Incidentally, there is another web page out there somewhere that has a (dangerous, extremely touchy) method of getting the U-235 out along with a way to make a decent bomb casing as well. It's been too long since I read it; I don't know how accurate it was.