 What does the colonel seem to think about the bomb situation at the mental institution?
Through the barred windows of the workshop, rolling green hills were seen, their tree-studded flanks making a pleasant setting for the mental institution. The sun set, darkness fell over the stilled hospital grounds and the ward lights winked out at nine o'clock, leaving just a single light burning in each ward office. 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.
 He is worried about the perception if others hear about what's happening
 He wants to let Thaddeus create more things to study them  He is worried about the perception if others hear about what's happening  He wants to keep the story away from the newspapers so that others cannot learn Thaddeus' secrets  It figures that this is where this is happening, so he's frustrated for yet another bomb case