Conclusion: The Next Stages: Nuclear Anxiety and the Amendment explains that the amendment’s inscription of the various forms of nuclear anxiety into the Constitution has not relieved the stress over a nuclear apocalypse, nor has it solved all the issues pertaining to succession and inability. This study of the amendment in practice reveals some formative and unpredictable effects, including not only those stemming from gaps and vagaries in the amendment but also from how presidents, already wielding the godlike power to push the button, have the power to avoid the intention of the law. Public concern over this fact as well as the temperament and mental ability of US presidents, who wield the sole power to order nuclear strikes, has not abated. As the threat of “accident, miscalculation, or madness” looms, the Conclusion identifies potential solutions useful to further reform the presidential succession system to ensure that it is an able president who has his or her finger on the button at all times. Currently, one of the oldest presidents to date has assumed office—after the incumbent withdrew from the race due to perceptions about his age, mental acuity, and physical fitness—and incandescent tensions in every corner of the globe are reaching extremes comparable to that of the Cold War. Never has a book on the intersection of presidential succession and nuclear anxiety been more necessary.