At a minimum:
- Fissile material to provide the energy
- Conventional explosives to rapidly assemble (about 1ms to 10ms) the fissile material from subcritical to supercritical form
- A tamper made of dense metal to contain the reaction for about 1µs to get good yield
- neutron sources to start the fission at optimal supercriticality
To make a practical bomb additional materials and systems would be required.
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