This sounds interesting but I must admit I don't see how it could work. We're talking about spontaneous fission with 252Cf, and a lot of it. The problems with predetonation become quite difficult to manage with this kind of material. Add to that the fact that in any kind of impact the compression will be quite asymmetric and difficult to control, which makes it difficult to attain a supercritical assembly, much less maintain it for the time necessary to achieve a significant fission rate. If Kahn suggested something like this, either he was free-associating ideas or knows a lot more about the physics of the weapons than I do (which is probably true).