The Worlds Of Herman Kahn

Author : Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674037561
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worlds of Herman Kahn written by Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Kahn was the only nuclear strategist in America who might have made a living as a standup comedian. In telling his story, Ghamari-Tabrizi captures an era that is still very much with us--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.

Author : B. Bruce-Briggs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781411631960
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supergenius: the Mega-Worlds of Herman Kahn written by B. Bruce-Briggs and published by . This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Describes his scientific, military, and political milieu. Thorough annotation. 12 pages of graphics; 472 text pages.

Author : Herman Kahn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351502204
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Escalation written by Herman Kahn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this widely discussed and influential book, Herman Kahn probes the dynamics of escalation and demonstrates how the intensification of conflict can be depicted by means of a definite escalation ladder, ascent of which brings opponents closer to all-out war. At each rung of the ladder, before the climb proceeds, decisions must be made based on numerous choices. Some are clear and obvious, others obscure, but the options are always there. Thermonuclear annihilation, says Kahn, is unlikely to come through accident; but nations may elect to climb the ladder to extinction. The basic material for the book was developed in briefings delivered by Kahn to military and civilian experts and revised in the light of his findings of a trip to Vietnam in the 1960s. In On Escalation he states the facts squarely. He asks the reader to face unemotionally the terrors of a world fully capable of suicide and to consider carefully the alternatives to such a path. In the never-never land of nuclear warfare, where nuclear incredulity is pervasive and paralyzing to the imagination even for the professional analyst, salient details of possible scenarios for the outbreak of war, and even more for war fighting, are largely unexplored or even unnoticed. For scenarios in which war is terminated, the issues and possibilities of which are almost completely unstudied, the situation is even worse. Kahn's discussion throws light on the terrain and gives the individual a sense of the range of possibilities and complexities involved and are useful.

Author : Herman Kahn
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739128280
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Herman Kahn written by Herman Kahn and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time of his untimely death in 1983, Herman Kahn was recognized by both friends and intellectual adversaries as "one of the world's most creative and best minds." The current growing resurgence of interest in Kahn's ideas and intellectual legacy demonstrates the enduring relevance of his work. Yet, in spite of the constant influence of his arguments, there is a shortage of books summarizing Kahn's essential contributions, and thus his work is not as well known as it should be. The Essential Herman Kahn is an attempt to cope with this predicament and offer the public for the first time an anthology consisting of the essence of Kahn's work, organized thematically. The two decades that have passed since his death allow us today to approach his work undisturbed by the "sound and fury" of the many public debates and controversies he participated in and to focus on some of the deepest and most enduring dimensions of his intellectual contributions. The anthology will try to bring together, out of the several thousands pages published by Kahn during his life, the "essential Kahn," the most relevant, consequential and interesting themes, ideas and arguments defining his legacy. As such it will met the needs of those who are interested in Kahn's work but do not have the time and energy to access his out-of-print books, to make their way through the voluminous number of pages, and then to sort out the essential from the accidental, the perennial from the contextual.

Author : Herman Kahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Thermonuclear War written by Herman Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herman Kahn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000002780
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Economic Development written by Herman Kahn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the prospects for world economic development. It focuses primarily on the period from 1978 to 2000 and pays particular attention to the earlier part of that interval. The book examines some of the more immediate problems and issues associated with the process of economic growth.

Author : Paul Erickson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022604677X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind written by Paul Erickson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military brass. Its home was the human sciences—psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, among others—and its participants enlisted in an intellectual campaign to figure out what rationality should mean and how it could be deployed. How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind brings to life the people—Herbert Simon, Oskar Morgenstern, Herman Kahn, Anatol Rapoport, Thomas Schelling, and many others—and places, including the RAND Corporation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Cowles Commission for Research and Economics, and the Council on Foreign Relations, that played a key role in putting forth a “Cold War rationality.” Decision makers harnessed this picture of rationality—optimizing, formal, algorithmic, and mechanical—in their quest to understand phenomena as diverse as economic transactions, biological evolution, political elections, international relations, and military strategy. The authors chronicle and illuminate what it meant to be rational in the age of nuclear brinkmanship.

Author : Alex Abella
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156033442
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldiers of Reason written by Alex Abella and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the RAND Corporation, written with full access to its archives, is a page-turning chronicle of the rise of the secretive think tank that has been the driving force behind the American government for 60 years.

Author : Paul Dragos Aligica
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739135147
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential Herman Kahn written by Paul Dragos Aligica and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time of his untimely death in 1983, Herman Kahn was recognized by both friends and intellectual adversaries as 'one of the world's most creative and best minds.' The current growing resurgence of interest in Kahn's ideas and intellectual legacy demonstrates the enduring relevance of his work. Yet, in spite of the constant influence of his arguments, there is a shortage of books summarizing Kahn's essential contributions, and thus his work is not as well known as it should be. The Essential Herman Kahn is an attempt to cope with this predicament and offer the public for the first time an anthology consisting of the essence of Kahn's work, organized thematically. The two decades that have passed since his death allow us today to approach his work undisturbed by the 'sound and fury' of the many public debates and controversies he participated in and to focus on some of the deepest and most enduring dimensions of his intellectual contributions. The anthology will try to bring together, out of the several thousands pages published by Kahn during his life, the 'essential Kahn,' the most relevant, consequential and interesting themes, ideas and arguments defining his legacy. As such it will met the needs of those who are interested in Kahn's work but do not have the time and energy to access his out-of-print books, to make their way through the voluminous number of pages, and then to sort out the essential from the accidental, the perennial from the contextual.

Author : Robert L. Holmes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400860148
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On War and Morality written by Robert L. Holmes and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The threat to the survival of humankind posed by nuclear weapons has been a frightening and essential focus of public debate for the last four decades and must continue to be so if we are to avoid destroying ourselves and the natural world around us. One unfortunate result of preoccupation with the nuclear threat, however, has been a new kind of "respectability" accorded to conventional war. In this radical and cogent argument for pacifism, Robert Holmes asserts that all war--not just nuclear war--has become morally impermissible in the modern world. Addressing a wide audience of informed and concerned readers, he raises dramatic questions about the concepts of "political realism" and nuclear deterrence, makes a number of persuasive suggestions for nonviolent alternatives to war, and presents a rich panorama of thinking about war from St. Augustine to Reinhold Niebuhr and Herman Kahn. Holmes's positions are compellingly presented and will provoke discussion both among convinced pacifists and among those whom he calls "militarists." "Militarists," we realize after reading this book, include the majority of us who live a friendly and peaceful personal life while supporting a system which, if Holmes is correct, guarantees war and risks eventual human extinction. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.