Ah No – The Teller Ulam design was first proposed in 1951, give or take a bit.

Tuck invented the shaped charged compression lens and Urchin in April 1944 not for the “super”, but for the Fat Man. Up until then the American in charge of the plutonium weapon, Seth Neddermeyer had met with complete and total failure in his attempts to develop a workable solution so Oppenhiemer fired him.

As the Teller Ulam design required a sperhical first stage it would not have existed without Tuck’s implosive lens.

Another very creditable input for developing Fat Man was Canadian Robert Christy who did the final core sizing……. Fat Man is sometimes called the “Christy Gadget”

The Hydrogen Bomb differed from the Atomic Bomb in that it used radiation implosion rather than explosive lensing. Yes, the primary used explosive lensing, but the Super is really a totally different design.

You might say that there could be no Super without the primary, but then you might also say, that there would be no Primary without conventional bombs and so forth back in time, until there are only rocks and sticks as weapons. You only get credit for an invention once, development after that is really a further step building on the previous – no matter who developed the first.

The way an Teller-Ulam design generates neutrons is also very much different from the Urchin used in the Atomic Bombs and is really what sets the Teller-Ulam design apart.