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Yes.Less so than thermonuclear warheads? That's ironic
U235 requires immense enrichment facilities to get the amount of U235 required. Those facilities consume a shitload of power along with the centrifuges that purify the U235 requiring a high level of engineering to manufacture. You arent easily hiding such a facilities nor quickly building them.
Pu239 on the other hand builds up in normal nuclear reactors and is separated via chemical processes so much easier to acquire covertly. Problem going thermonuclear though is the intense amounts of math and design issues.