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	Herman Kahn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kahn's major contributions were the several strategies he developed during the Cold War to contemplate "the unthinkable," namely, nuclear warfare, by using applications of game theory.
		Kahn, who had been severely overweight all his life, died of a massive stroke in 1983, at the age of 61.
		Kahn was reportedly one of the models for Dr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herman_Kahn (1778 words)

	Herman Kahn - SourceWatch
		Herman Kahn (1922 - 1983) was founder of the Hudson Institute.
		In general, Kahn believed that science is necessarily and inherently progressive, and that political interventions for the benefit of the environment are based on an irrational fear of science.
		He was strongly opposed to the precautionary principle and felt that global warming is a "normal oscillation", that deforestation was greatly exaggerated, and that acid rain is a minor problem [1].
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Herman_Kahn (396 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Worlds of Herman Kahn : The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War: Books: Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Herman Kahn is perhaps best known (to those who know of him at all) as the model for Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.
		As Ghamari-Tabrizi describes him, Kahn, first at RAND and then at the Hudson Institute (the think tank he founded in 1961), dared to talk about all aspects of nuclear warfare and ways of keeping the nuclear peace, at a time when his approach to such topics was taboo.
		Herman Kahn (1922-83) was a cold war original whose notoriously sensational ideas, embodied in his On Thermonuclear War (1960), were later satirized in Dr.
	www.amazon.ca /Worlds-Herman-Kahn-Intuitive-Thermonuclear/dp/0674017145 (512 words)

	Alex Burns: Herman Kahn: The Dark Visionary of 'Unknown Unknowns'
		One of the side-projects I'm working on at the moment is a critical re-evalution of the strategic thinker Herman Kahn, who is regarded as a realist thinker on scenario planning and strategic studies.
		Kahn is often derided today as a techno-military analyst of the paranoid Dr.
		Ghamari-Tabrizi situates Kahn's simulations in their appropriate historical context: the post-World War II application of economics and mathematics (notably game theory) to large-scale problems; the rise of think-tanks such as the RAND and Hudson research institutes; and the Eisenhower Administration's New Look policy framework for nuclear deterrence.
	www.alexburns.net /2006/03/herman_kahn_the_dark_visionary.html (471 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		(Kahn is the subject of a full-length biography with a similar title, “Supergenius: The Mega-Worlds of Herman Kahn,” by a former colleague, Barry Bruce-Briggs, which, though partisan, is thorough and informed, and which Ghamari-Tabrizi, strangely, never mentions.) She is not the first to treat Kahn as more an artist than a scientist.
		Kahn dismisses the notion that a society that has just suffered the obliteration of its cities, the contamination of its soil and water, and the massacre of a large portion of its population might lack the civic virtue and moral fibre necessary to rebuild.
		Kahn had a reply to this objection, which was that the insistence that nuclear war is immoral will never prevent nuclear war.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/critics/050627crbo_books (4228 words)

	The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War \| Book Review \| atomicarchive.com
		Herman Kahn is an enigma in the world of nuclear strategy.
		The Worlds of Herman Kahn, as the title implies, is not a biography of Kahn, but rather a description of the world he inhabited, and how the media, Kahn, the U.S. government and various aspects of American culture in the 1950s and 60s, came together on the subject of nuclear war.
		Kahn died of a massive stroke in 1983.
	www.atomicarchive.com /Reviews/0674017145.shtml (363 words)

	Nuclear philosopher: big thoughts from a big man about big bombs Weekly Standard, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Herman Kahn, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi tells us, was "the only nuclear strategist who could have made a decent living as a stand-up comedian." Not everyone was amused.
		Kahn was a genius and a polymath--in 1943, he earned the highest grade ever recorded on the Army's intelligence test--but he came to realize he wasn't in their league.
		Kahn and the other RAND strategists were all driven by opposition to the Eisenhower administration's strategy of "massive retaliation," which raised the specter of an all-out nuclear strike against the Soviet enemy in the event of an attack on the United States, or any other significant provocation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0RMQ/is_41_10/ai_n14863856 (790 words)

	Guide to the Herman Kahn Papers : Finding Aid
		Herman Kahn was born in Rochester, Minnesota in 1907.
		Kahn was a forceful advocate of the idea that the archival profession did not merely serve the needs of historians, but was a profession in its own right.
		Kahn's specialties were presidential libraries and the history of the New Deal, and he wrote several articles on these and other topics.
	mssa.library.yale.edu /findaids/stream.php?xmlfile=mssa.ms.1742.xml (604 words)

	The Science Creative Quarterly » A DIALOG ON NUCLEAR WARFARE: CHARLES SHAW, HERMAN KAHN AND ME
		Herman Kahn: That fact that nuclear war is a terrible prospect does not mean that we can justify avoiding thinking about the possibility.
		Herman Kahn: Anyone who refuses to think about the nature of modern warfare is hurting.
		Herman Kahn: I have been so concerned with applying systems analysis to artificial scenarios, that I forgot how wonderful it is to be human, to feel the warmth of a cup of coffee.
	www.scq.ubc.ca /?p=279 (450 words)

	Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi - Scholar, Author of The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intutive Science of Thermonuclear War
		Herman Kahn was the only nuclear strategist in America who might have made a living as a standup comedian.
		Portraying a life that combined aspects of Lenny Bruce, Hitchcock, and Kubrick, Ghamari-Tabrizi presents not one Herman Kahn, but many--one who spoke the suffocatingly dry argot of the nuclear experts, another whose buffoonery conveyed the ingenious absurdity of it all, and countless others who capered before the public, ambiguous, baffling, always open to interpretation.
		In Herman Kahn's world is a critical lesson about how Cold War analysts learned to fill in the ciphers of strategic uncertainty, and thus how we as a nation learned to live with the peculiarly inventive quality of strategy, in which uncertainty generates extravagant threat scenarios.
	www.sharonghamari.com (228 words)

	Herman Kahn - Moviefone
		Barry Bruce-Briggs, Supergenius: The mega-worlds of Herman Kahn,...
		Otto Hermann Kahn was one of eight children (he was the third son and fifth child...
		Herman Kahn, the most celebrated and controversial nuclear strategist of his day, later to be known also as a futurist, political scientist, geo-strategist...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/herman-kahn/96589/main (123 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: HERMAN KAHN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Kahn very cavalierly dimissed moral factors as irrelevant and, despite his claims to the contrary, made no distinctions between kinds of moral arguments.
		As far as the rest of Kahn's speech is concerned, the CRIMSON story was too charitable.
		Kahn's talk bristled with this sort of thing; it was a hodge-podge of airy speculation, cynical game plans, and cold-blooded technical recommendations as to how the U. an win in Indochina.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=356289 (406 words)

	Herman Kahn
		Herman Kahn born in Bayonne, New Jersey, 1922, died in 1983.
		Herman Kahn was a military strategist employed at Rand Corporation, USA.
		Strangelove from the movie with the same name released in 1964.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/he/Herman_Kahn.html (66 words)

	The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War Book Reviews
		Herman Kahn was one of the first “MegaPundits.” He was witty, gave good soundbite and covered a subject (nuclear warfare) that always got peoples attention.
		The Worlds of Herman Kahn, as the title implies, is not a biography of Kahn, but rather a description of the world he inhabited, and how the media, Herman Kahn, the U.S. government and various aspects of American culture in the 1950s and 60s, came together on the subject of nuclear war.
		The Worlds of Herman Kahn doesn’t cover much of the contemporary wargaming on nuclear war (which was one reason I was called in 1980).
	www.strategypage.com /bookreviews/260.asp (558 words)

	Salem on Literature \| The Worlds of Herman Kahn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Herman Kahn and his fellow analysts at the RAND Corporation in the 1950's developed systems analysis as a device for modeling future wars, but many military veterans sneered at the work of these theorists never tested on the battlefield.
		When Kahn published On Thermonuclear War in 1960, some intellectuals were enraged but many others were forced to think for the first time about the possibilities for survival after a nuclear war.
		Kahn's most startling concept in his book was the suggestion that for ten billion dollars the United States could build a Doomsday Machine, a bomb that could destroy the earth in response to a nuclear attack, his thinking apparently being that no enemy would invite such catastrophe.
	www.enotes.com /salem-lit/worlds-herman-kahn/print (253 words)

	The Worlds of Herman Kahn - SharonGhamari.com
		Kahn’s work at RAND is critical to understanding the cultural and scientific authority of simulated experience.
		While the Kahn, and the other simulationists insisted that their approach to nuclear war was informed by scientifically exacting rigor, they also freely acknowledged that simulating nuclear war was an artisanal and subjective business.
		In one way or another, they refrained Kahn’s remark that in order to enter into the speculative domain of the post-attack world, one had to overdesign one’s models, heeding all the known weapons effects phenomena, “and then hope for the best.
	www.sharonghamari.com /hermankahn.html (572 words)

	Herman Kahn: Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Herman Kahn became known first for his work on nuclear strategy, later gained a reputation as a futurist.
		Hudson Institute home page (including information on Herman Kahn's role in its founding and continuing influence on its ethos).
		Statement of President Ronald Reagan on the death of Herman Kahn, July 8, 1983.
	www.alteich.com /links/kahn.htm (242 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War - Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As the author clearly establishes, Herman Kahn was simultaneously hated and revered.
		Kahn authored the ground-breaking work "On Thermonuclear War" (1961) a book which, in exquisitely painful detail theorizes how such a terrible war might be fought, and even "won." It was a book and a thesis which provoked
		Kahn's huge genius lay in his ability to stare directly at and analyze anything, "When [U.S. military] officers objected that Kahn was ill-equipped to speak on military affairs," Ghamari-Tabrizi writes, "he'd shoot back, 'How many thermonuclear wars have you fought recently?' Aside from war games, they admitted, they had no actual experience with these weapons.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-0674017145-locale-us.html (1188 words)

	Hudson Institute > Learn About Hudson » Staff Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Herman Kahn, the most celebrated and controversial nuclear strategist of his day, later to be known also as a futurist, political scientist, geo-strategist and founder and director of the Hudson Institute "think tank,â began his career in the late 1940s with the Rand Corporation as a physicist and mathematician.
		In 1961 Kahn resigned the Rand Corporation and established the Hudson Institute, an organization that developed into a pioneer and model for the new emerging forms of public policy and interdisciplinary research institutions.
		He became one of the founding fathers of the Futures Studies (futurology) movement contributing to the highest degree to its methodological and theoretical foundations: he developed the scenario method, the application of systems analysis and of mathematical and scientific tools to forecasting, and the organizational bases of interdisciplinary and future-oriented research.
	www.hudson.org /learn/index.cfm?fuseaction=staff_bio&eid=HermanKahn (728 words)

	Alsos: Fat Man: Herman Kahn and the Nuclear Age
		The article examines Kahn’s viewpoint and beliefs within the framework of the general mindset that prevailed among the employees of the RAND Corporation, the research arm of the U.S. Air Force, where Kahn worked on nuclear war plans and analysis during the Cold War.
		The main assertions of his book are explained, including his argument that the results of nuclear war must be considered bearable by the American people to give any force to the U.S. nuclear policy of deterrence.
		Also mentioned in the article are Kahn’s support of civil defense measures, his influence on the movie Dr.
	alsos.wlu.edu /information.aspx?id=2512 (154 words)

	SUPERGENIUS: The Mega-Worlds of Herman Kahn by B. Bruce-Briggs (Book) in History
		The definitive biography of Herman Kahn (1922-1983), the renowned thermonuclear war strategist, futurologist, and polymath, written by a long-time colleague with full access to his papers and former associates.
		This is the ONLY serious biography of Herman Kahn available, but thankfully, it is excellent.
		In a world becoming, once again, increasingly dangerous, a look back at the still-applicable and accurate work of Herman Kahn, and the re-issue of his early works on strategy and nuclear warfare, could make the world safer for all of us.
	www.lulu.com /content/127084 (444 words)

	Anthony Barker's Weblog on Linux, Technology & the Economy: Herman Kahn 40 years later
		I've been reading Herman Kahn's "In the year 2000", a look forward to the year 2000 written in 1965.
		Paul Krugman estimates, however, that only about a third of all the forecasts materialized: “If you go down the list, you will recognize such things as cell phones, the Internet and faxes.
		Kahn's list contains all kinds of things that haven't materialized.
	www.xminc.com /mt/archives/000126.html (546 words)

	Kahn, Herman - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Kahn, Herman" at HighBeam.
		The challenge of the future and the institutionalization of interdisciplinarity: notes on Herman Kahn's legacy.
		The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War.(FUTURES STUDIES)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-kahn-h1er.html (243 words)

	Herman Kahn quotes - Quotations Book
		Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.
		Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922-July 7, 1983) was a military strategist and systems theorist employed at RAND Corporation, USA.
		All quotations remain the intellectual property of their originators.
	www.quotationsbook.com /authors/3913/Herman_Kahn (107 words)

	AllRefer.com - Herman Kahn (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Herman Kahn[kAn] Pronunciation Key, 1922–83, American military strategist.
		Bayonne, N.J. After graduate work in physics at the California Institute of Technology, he joined the Rand Corporation.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Herman Kahn
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kahn-Her.html (229 words)

	Reason Magazine - Hit & Run > On Herman Kahn
		Louis Menand has a fascinating review of the latest bio of Herman Kahn, nuclear strategist at the RAND Corporation and probably one of the models for Stanley Kubrick's Dr.
		But the balance of terror finally did work--a fact some might want to ponder, if not necessarily reproduce, when considering how to deal with the North Korean and possibly Iranian nuclear weapons programs.
		Actually, what I want is to perform heroic sexual service in a mineshaft with women who have been selected for their sexually stimulating qualities.
	www.reason.com /blog/show/110060.html (1052 words)

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