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You mentioned Idi Amin as one too.

People, leaders who have the power of life and death, not only of their own nation, area but I was particularly concerned with the ultimate power. Power really is vital to the human species which leaders of the nuclear nations have, and rightly or wrongly I felt that humanity was gambling with its survival by not having control over the stability, instability of these unprecedented people of this unprecedented power. I felt that we were just taking a chance. So after all, these are human beings. They're not gods. They have the frailties, the pluses, the minuses of human beings. I do not know what the methods are for controlling any single person's decision to push the button or to do whatever is required to start the nuclear holocaust. But I would feel much more comfortable for my future fellow human beings if we had ways of guaranteeing or assuring that the instability of a particular individual or coterie because another thing that fascinates me is that, as a social psychologist, I know that a leader can influence those who he has around him. It's rare for major decisions that the leader wants to implement to be successfully questioned or restricted by his cohorts.

I believe you even mentioned Reagan in this context.

Yes.

Am I to draw the inference here that from you can observe what he