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This is interesting but gun type bombs are not feasible for plutonium. The fission rate is too fast and would destroy the plutonium in a "fizzle" instead of a large explosion. This device could not use plutonium because it would have to be much heavier and longer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_Man_(nuclear_bomb)
Also, the "shaped charge" plutonium bomb could not be assembled on site. It is too delicate a job for "spies" to do in a hotel room. This would have to be Uranium if assembled on site, and it may not even work then.
I wonder if the magazine knows this. Maybe they were fed incorrect info, since this may have been classified at the time.
What about uranium?