 Which is not a reason the narrator did not tell anyone about the bomb when he discovered it?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, January 1960. This being earlier than I usually get up, it seems all I did during the night was feel my way past the escapement and balance wheel to see where the notch for the alarm was. One went to a battery and the other to hard round cylinders taped together. No, none of them would know it was there. We'd be leaving the valley for the mountain range north of Los Angeles soon, if we hadn't left it already. I'd be a man not to be trusted, a prying man, a man literally with gimlet eyes.
 He did not want to be asked to diffuse it because he did not know how
 He did not want to have to explain how he knew it was there  He figured it was futile, if there were no specialists to disarm it on board  He thought he might be able to keep it from becoming dangerous if he tried hard enough  He did not want to be asked to diffuse it because he did not know how