The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War

Harvard University Press (2005)
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Abstract

In telling Kahn’s story, Ghamari-Tabrizi captures a time whose innocence, gruesome nuclear humor, and outrageous but deadly serious visions of annihilation have their echoes in the “known unknowns and unknown unknowns” that guide policymakers in our own embattled world.

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