Originally Posted by WillCAD

"The explosives weren't live?" What does that mean? Were they real explosives or just modeling clay? Or perhaps a special mix of modeling clay with just a tiny smidge of real explosives that would attract sniffers but not go boom?

Or do they simply mean that the explosives didn't have a detonator attached and thus was extremely unlikely to go boom, unless intentionally acted upon by someone who knows how to detonate such materials?