How many heads of state have, for example, strapped on explosives and, while shouting alaakbar, charged into a crowd while detonating themselves? Find me one. One will do.
Why would they do that when they can convince others to do it instead?
Exactly. When it's a nuke, and not a strapped-on bomb, it might as well be the rulers as some chump doing it, because the result for them will be the same.
