[MJY1288]

"Pantex officials also downplayed the risk, Conway noted, calling the cracks in the explosive and the fact that workers taped it together a "trivial" change in procedures.

There is nothing "trivial" about the handling of explosive in a plant that's dismantling Nuclear Weapons. Look for a small rise in the unemployment rate next week

[U S Army EOD]

Actually it was probably a good decision on their part to secure the explosives