...or because he was sober? In the 90's they had to open the codes suitcase for him, when he received warning of attack.
It will happen again and again. In time of tension, some jerk, drunk or sober, a Nixon or a Yeltsin, will push the button. It cannot fail.
It is so arrogant for Western thuggish leaders to impune recklessness upon nuclear-armed third world leaders, when it's they who have threatened nuclear war so many times.
Why does India get the bomb? Because it was threatened by Nixon. That's why Pakistan got it. Not to mention the fact that Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India are divided because the Brits caused that Muslim-Hindu war.