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The Worlds of Herman Kahn

Author : Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674037561
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 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.

On Escalation

Author : Herman Kahn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351502204
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 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.

On Thermonuclear War

Author : Herman Kahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 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:

The Essential Herman Kahn

Author : Herman Kahn
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739128280
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 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.

Supergenius: the Mega-Worlds of Herman Kahn

Author : B. Bruce-Briggs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781411631960
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (319 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.

World Economic Development

Author : Herman Kahn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000002780
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( 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.

How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind

Author : Paul Erickson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022604677X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 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.

Soldiers of Reason

Author : Alex Abella
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156033442
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (334 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.

To Win a Nuclear War

Author : Michio Kaku
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780921689072
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book To Win a Nuclear War written by Michio Kaku and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Win a Nuclear War records as fully as we are likely to find what has gone on in the minds of American leaders and nuclear strategists on this awesome subject during these fateful forty years. It is an appalling story... This book compels us to re-think and re-write the history of the Cold War and the arms race."--From the foreword by Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United States. To Win a Nuclear War provides a startling glimpse into secret U.S. plans to initiate a nuclear war from 1945 to the present. Based on recently declassified Top Secret documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, this book meticulously traces how U.S. policy makers in over a dozen episodes have threatened to initiate a nuclear attack. The book also documents the surprising reasons why the war plans were never carried out and discloses the deeper, hidden meaning of the Star Wars program.

War's Logic

Author : Antulio J. Echevarria II
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107091977
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book War's Logic written by Antulio J. Echevarria II and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys how American strategic theorists have understood the nature and character of war in the twentieth century.

On War and Morality

Author : Robert L. Holmes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400860148
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 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.

The Essential Herman Kahn

Author : Paul Dragos Aligica
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739135147
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 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.

The Year 2000

Author : Herman Kahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year 2000 written by Herman Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gentle Subversive

Author : Mark Hamilton Lytle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198038534
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Gentle Subversive written by Mark Hamilton Lytle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring antagonized some of the most powerful interests in the nation--including the farm block and the agricultural chemical industry--and helped launch the modern environmental movement. In The Gentle Subversive, Mark Hamilton Lytle offers a compact biography of Carson, illuminating the road that led to this vastly influential book. Lytle explores the evolution of Carson's ideas about nature, her love for the sea, her career as a biologist, and above all her emergence as a writer of extraordinary moral and ecological vision. We follow Carson from her childhood on a farm outside Pittsburgh, where she first developed her love of nature (and where, at age eleven, she published her first piece in a children's magazine), to her graduate work at Johns Hopkins and her career with the Fish and Wildlife Service. Lytle describes the genesis of her first book, Under the Sea-Wind, the incredible success of The Sea Around Us (a New York Times bestseller for over a year), and her determination to risk her fame in order to write her "poison book": Silent Spring. The author contends that despite Carson's demure, lady-like demeanor, she was subversive in her thinking and aggressive in her campaign against pesticides. Carson became the spokeswoman for a network of conservationists, scientists, women, and other concerned citizens who had come to fear the mounting dangers of the human assault on nature. What makes this story particularly compelling is that Carson took up this cause at the very moment when she herself faced a losing battle with cancer. Succinct and engaging, The Gentle Subversive is a story of success, celebrity, controversy, and vindication. It will inspire anyone interested in protecting the natural world or in women's struggle to find a voice in society.

The Coming Boom

Author : Herman Kahn
Publisher : New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Coming Boom written by Herman Kahn and published by New York : Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1982 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om et kommende økonomisk opsving i USA.

The Emerging Japanese Superstate

Author : Herman Kahn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780233962955
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Emerging Japanese Superstate written by Herman Kahn and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emerging Japanese Superstate might be said to owe its existence to the accident of the author's friendship with Thomas Lipscomb. About a year ago Mr Lipscomb discussed with the author the possibility of writing a book based upon some Hudson Institute area studies of the fascinating long-range prospects of Japan. The first chapter of the book consists of a revised version of a talk, the author gave at Kyoto Sangyo University on the occassion of the Meiji Centennial in 1968.

Counsels of War

Author : Gregg Herken
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101946121
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Counsels of War written by Gregg Herken and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945, a close community of civilian experts, including scientists, academics, and think-tank intellectuals, has advised the American government on the prospects of nuclear war. Based on interviews with these experts, as well as hundreds of pages of recently declassified documents, Counsels of War is the first book to trace in detail the deliberations and shifting recommendations of the experts on the bomb from Hiroshima to "Star Wars." Gregg Herken writes about the people whose profession it has been to think about the unthinkable—Robert McNamara, Paul Nitze, Herman Kahn, Bernard Brodie—including their intense rivalries, personal animosities, and often contentious relationship with the professional military. He reveals how the influence of the scientist and strategist has extended well beyond the laboratory and the classroom—in the proposal of Kennedy's advisers for a nuclear "demonstration" and even a "clever first-strike" against the Russians, for example. Counsels of War also shatters certain popular assumptions about U.S. nuclear policy. As Herken points out, while American doctrine stresses "retaliation," U.S. strategists have always planned to "pre-empt" a Soviet attack. Herken shows that the lines in the current nuclear debate were actually drawn at the dawn of the atomic age, and that the experts' technically abstruse arguments have only served to hide from the public the fundamental, deeply held—and quite subjective—differences at the heart of the debate. Since Hiroshima, there has been a growing awareness of the peril created by nuclear weapons, yet the crucial questions that were never adequately addressed in 1945 unanswered today. Given the inability of the experts to confront the essential dilemma of the nuclear age, Counsels of War calls for a new nuclear debate, one focused on American rather than Soviet intentions and that seeks an answer to the fundamental, yet still unresolved question: What are these weapons for?