All things considered, it was just as well that his finger never came near the nuclear button.
"But it will not demand a finger on the nuclear button."
And this is the man we put next to the nuclear button; what can we have been thinking?
He's going to push the nuclear button because of you.
I prefer a guy who can push the nuclear button with either hand.
You know that pushing the nuclear button would remove the Arabs from the human race.
Two third world powers tapping their fingers on nuclear buttons.
Even if the Soviet leadership were killed, their 'dead hands' could still press the nuclear button.
Mr. Yeltsin will still keep control of the nuclear button.
It's a nuclear button, one his people do not, under almost any conditions, want to push.