Instead of mocking those that supposedly have their fingers on the trigger for nuclear war, perhaps the deficiencies of the fail safe systems should be looked at.
I wonder how many times we have been at the brink of nuclear war.
Was there not a wargames tape played for realtime once upon a time?
You can be sure many incidents have been buried.

https://futureoflife.org/background/nuclear-close-calls-a-timeline/