 Why is everyone surprised that Thaddeus was able to make a bomb?
I thought you said an 'atom bomb.'" Within fifteen minutes, the disaster-trained crews had detected heavy radiation emanating from the crater and there was a scurry of men and equipment back to a safe distance, a few hundred yards away. At 5:30 a.m., a plane landed at a nearby airfield and a platoon of Atomic Energy Commission experts, military intelligence men, four FBI agents and an Army full colonel disembarked. "It's impossible and unbelievable," Colonel Thomas Thurgood said for the fifteenth time, later that morning, as he looked around the group of experts gathered in the tent erected on the hill overlooking the crater. We don't know, but the fact remains that it WAS an atomic explosion."
 It was only made of clay and nothing else
 He needed the finger paints but Mr. Lieberman had taken those  Miss Abercrombie had taken away the other parts that would have made it work  It was only made of clay and nothing else  It was the wrong kind of clay to build an explosive device from