Is it because, one of the wires when cut, makes the bomb explode?
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Actual former bomb tech here (USAF EOD).
Some of the other things people are saying are right to varying degrees.
Another very important point I didn’t really see mentioned is that a bomb tech’s life is a valuable thing. The military spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and a solid year training me before I was considered anything more than an apprentice. So they wouldn’t risk my life over something trivial. If a job could be done remotely, by a robot, or by placing a tool and activating it after I was safely away, that would always be priority 1. My team leader in Iraq did a “hand entry” on a device that he really did not need to. He disarmed it successfully, and was thoroughly chewed out by leadership afterward. He was very nearly dismissed and sent home.
As a final fun fact, in one of our advanced IEDs classes, we learned a relatively simple way to make a firing circuit that could detonate a bomb through the wire that you just cut.
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