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    Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 – July 7, 1983) was an American physicist and a founding member of the Hudson Institute, regarded as one of the preeminent...
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  • French poet Hannah Kahn (1911–1988), American poet, born in New York City Harold L. Kahn (1930–2018), American historian Herman Kahn (1922–1983), American...
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  • On Thermonuclear War is a book by Herman Kahn, a military strategist at the RAND Corporation, although it was written only a year before he left RAND...
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    1961 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, by futurist Herman Kahn and his colleagues at the RAND Corporation. Kahn was a physicist and military consultant known...
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    BosWash is a name coined by futurist Herman Kahn in a 1967 essay describing a theoretical United States megalopolis extending from the metropolitan area...
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    Herman Kahn (August 13, 1907 – June 5, 1975) was an American archivist, and served as an Assistant Archivist of the United States between 1962 and 1968...
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    (née Tashker) and Lawrence Kahn in an Ashkenazi Jewish family. Through his father, he is related to futurist Herman Kahn. After receiving a B.E.E. degree...
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  • Alert. The character is an amalgamation of RAND Corporation strategist Herman Kahn, rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (a central figure in Nazi Germany's...
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  • found in The Next 200 Years: A Scenario for America and the World, by Herman Kahn et al., published in 1976, p. 2. ""Crisis of Confidence" Speech (July...
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    Chief strategist Herman Kahn also posited the idea of a "winnable" nuclear exchange in his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War. This led to Kahn's being one of...
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    Dictionary. Kahn, H. (2011). On Thermonuclear War. War and Peace Research. Transaction Publishers. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-4128-1559-8. Kahn, Herman (1960). On...
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  • his expertise on the politics of nuclear weapons, a character based on Herman Kahn. Groeteschele is a fervent anti-communist. At a dinner party the previous...
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  • Kriegsmarine's Schnellboot. "Oheka" is an acronym of letters from Kahn's full name, Otto Herman Kahn. He had previously named his New York estate, built on Long...
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  • popularized during the Cold War by two important books: On Escalation (Herman Kahn, 1965) and Escalation and the Nuclear Option (Bernard Brodie, 1966)....
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    weapons are simply one more rung on the ladder of escalation pioneered by Herman Kahn. This leads to a number of other conclusions regarding the potential...
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  • molecular chemistry and computational physics by Theodore E. Harris and Herman Kahn in 1951, Marshall N. Rosenbluth and Arianna W. Rosenbluth in 1955, and...
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    fluid mechanics. An earlier pioneering article by Theodore E. Harris and Herman Kahn, published in 1951, used mean-field genetic-type Monte Carlo methods...
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    French ministers in Tokyo earlier in the year. In fact, this followed the Herman Kahn lecture of 25 September 2013 in which he outlined his foreign policy...
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  • century. Lindsey Grant accuses cornucopians, especially Julian Simon and Herman Kahn, of making arguments with logical flaws, omissions and oversights and...
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  • if not entirely, with munitions on hand at the start of the fighting. Herman Kahn, in his tome On Thermonuclear War, posited that a broken-backed war is...
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  • nuclear false alarm incident "Dead Man's Switch" (The Outer Limits) Herman Kahn Lethal autonomous weapon Mount Yamantaw Mutual assured destruction On...
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  • him to the Hudson Institute, the conservative think tank founded by Herman Kahn, to develop a plausible scenario. Milius saw the story as a Third World...
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  • 2019-06-01. "On Thermonuclear War, by Herman Kahn (1960)". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 2019-06-01. "Herman Kahn | American futurist". Encyclopedia Britannica...
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    Korean War. In his 1962 book, Thinking About the Unthinkable, futurist Herman Kahn argued that to "look a little crazy" might be an effective way to induce...
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    Comic Book Hall of Fame in 1996. Robert Kahn was born in New York City, New York. His parents, Augusta and Herman Kahn, an engraver, were of Ashkenazi Jewish...
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    nuclear strike, Second strike Force de frappe Game theory, wargaming Herman Kahn Madman theory Massive retaliation Military strategy Minimal deterrence...
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    Dr Strangelove was widely held to be a composite of Edward Teller, Herman Kahn, and von Braun; but only von Braun shared Strangelove's Nazi past. "Indiana...
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  • K. (June 1973). "JAPAN — THE EMERGING SUPERSTATE ? Some Thoughts on Herman Kahn". The Developing Economies. 11 (2): 196–210. doi:10.1111/j.1746-1049...
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    by Samuel Cohen of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 1960 – Herman Kahn publishes On Thermonuclear War. November 1961 – In Fortune magazine,...
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    Pamela Green Jackson 2012 Bernice Young Jones 1996 I. King Jordan 2001 Herman Kahn 1989 (posthumous) Max Kampelman 1989 Dennis Keogh 1984 (posthumous) Richard...
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