TY  - GEN
N2  - 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.
DO  - 10.4159/9780674037564
DO  - doi
AB  - 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.
T1  - The Worlds of Herman Kahn :The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War /
AU  - Ghamari-Tabrizi, Sharon,
JF  - HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
JF  - HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014
JF  - HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2015
CN  - U263 -- G49 2005eb
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
ID  - 1481578
KW  - Nuclear warfare
KW  - Atomkrieg
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.
SN  - 9780674037564
TI  - The Worlds of Herman Kahn :The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War /
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