With apologies to U2, this is of course Trapped at Sea, the seventy third book in the series. It may also be called keep on trucking as well, as the boys get jobs driving big lorries around in order to smoke out some truck hijackers. Oh and be aware that yes they do get to dismantle an atomic bomb in this as their dealings leads them to Pirates Cove, an island somewhere in the Caribbean, where the freighter they are trapped on docks (well Atlantic island), and they find that the Uranium the trucks held! is being used to make bombs for a rogue nation.
Sorry for the big wall of text there, you did read that right, they get to dismantle an atomic bomb with the help of an evil professor. There is, for once one difference between the two texts as the final sentence altered to omit the next book in the UK version.
The text credits a Doctor William W. Ennis for help with the atomic research and radioactive side of things. A search brings up a William P Ennis, a war hero and a name Beavis and Butthead would chuckle over, but nothing for the former. I wonder if he was a friend of the author or someone he knew?
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