"no this was NOT a suicide run!
Remember when the man showed up with the radiation burns?

In the clinic Hawkins said to him it was supposed to be family only. Why did he go back?

the other guy said he couldn't just leave "them" there to die.

Whoever planned this didn't entend that drivers sacrifice themselves. the delivery was just the first part, the first task for this members.
they were all supposed to meet up again at the rendevous point.

that's where Sarah and Hawkins were going to find the Old Man.
"

"I find it hard to believe the conspriators were able to find so many willing drivers, many of whom did not look Arabic, or at least I didnt see any Middle Easterners, willing to blow themselves up.

Is it possible that when their dispatcher in "The Day Before" told them they were going to make "history", that perhaps they were told they were delivering a special medicine, or even a new book, to different locations throughout the country, but atomic boms were planted in the trucks instead? Were these unsuspecting patsies?

Hawkins knew this, and had a choice: he could blow the whistle on the deal, and tell the other drivers, after which he would have been shot dead immediately, and the bombs would have all still gone off, or he could quiety take his bomb, deactivate it, get his wife and kids, and get them to safety knowing that at least Columbius wasnt going to get fried.

Why wouldnt he call the authorities? It was too late, and besides, who would listen? He was to deliver the bomb to his bosses, but instead hid out in Jericho, which is why they are trying to track him down. Or maybe its the bomb plotters that are upset with him, and trying to track him down and get their nuker back."