The Worlds of Herman Kahn : : The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War / / Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (427 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue: A Matter of Faith
- 1: How Many Kahns Can There Be?
- 2: The Cold War Avant-Garde at RAND
- 3: The Real Dr. Strangelove
- 4: An Operational but Undetected Capability
- 5: How to Build a World with Artful Intuition
- 6: Faith and Insight in War-Gaming
- 7: The Mineshaft Gap
- 8: On Thermonuclear War
- 9: Comedy of the Unspeakable
- 10: Mass Murder or the Spirit of Humanism?
- Epilogue: A Comic Philosophy
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index