Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 2005. 374 pages. Illus., notes, index. $26.95. ISBN:0-674-01714-5 Herman Kahn was one of the first “MegaPundits.” He was witty, gave good soundbite and ...
When President Ronald Reagan eulogized Herman Kahn in 1983 as “a futurist who welcomed the future,” he captured the essence of conservatism’s most unexpected optimist. This Cold War nuclear strategist ...
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In my (free, paywall-down) essay last week, “Forget about Left Wing and Right Wing. How about an Up Wing America?,” I wrote that my model for optimistic techno-solutionism is the postwar think-tanker ...
The lessons of Herman Kahn. While conscientious civilians kept an eye out for suspicious aircraft, Herman Kahn went swimming. A corporation sympathetic to Kahn’s concern for civil defense had offered ...
Note: This is a longer article that ties together some of the crazy apocalyptic nuclear tropes popular around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and just before and after. That was the period in ...
THE YEAR 2000 by Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener. 431 pages. A/lacmi/-lan. $9.95. The 20th century is approaching old age. Just 33 years away lies the birth of a new millennium, an event that will ...
After Hiroshima, the conclusion of American strategists was that military history didn’t matter much anymore. The atomic bomb seemed to have changed war so drastically that now, more than ever, ...
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