| Description |
1 online resource (387 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Kahn, Herman, 1922-1983
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| SUBJECT |
Kahn, Herman, 1922-1983 fast |
| Subject |
Nuclear warfare -- Philosophy
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HISTORY -- Military -- Nuclear Warfare.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
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Nuclear warfare -- Philosophy
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Atomkrieg
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2004059697 |
| ISBN |
9780674037564 |
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0674037561 |
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9780674017146 |
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0674017145 |
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