Presidential Disability and the Twenty-fifth Amendment
Abstract
To the Editor.
—The descriptions of the risks to Americans of presidential ill health and a flawed process for succession reflect a bias.1-4 Currently, 10 nations possess a nuclear weapons capability and the urge to acquire this technology appears irrepressible. In a world of emerging, quasi-, and many nondemocratic states, far more serious threats to US and international security are likely to arise from the cognitive impairment of leaders (and an ill-defined leadership succession)...