[DMCA]

There is a good chance you are correct. But people who work with Nuclear weapons should not take chances. We spend billions each year to test, in simulation, these damn things and they should not make it up as they go along.

The stakes are too high.

[U S Army EOD]

By the use of tape, they made it a safer situation by stabilizing the movement of the cracked explosive.

[DonnerT]

Your ass wasn't on the line.
You don't have the experience those dismantlers have.
Odds are the "engineer" who wrote the stupid, supercautious, dangerous delay proceedures never took one apart.
I'd trust the guys doing the job instead of the beaureaucrat.