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Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 – July 7, 1983) was an American physicist and a founding member of the Hudson Institute, regarded as one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century.
Herman Kahn (born Feb. 15, 1922, Bayonne, N.J., U.S.—died July 7, 1983, Chappaqua, N.Y.) was an American physicist, strategist, and futurist best known for his controversial studies of nuclear warfare. Kahn graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1945.
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Feb 15, 2022 · February 15, 2022, would have been the 100th birthday of Hudson Institute founder Herman Kahn, who passed away in 1983. Kahn built a unique, interdisciplinary think tank designed to be bold and...
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Herman Kahn was the heavyweight of the Megadeath Intellectuals, the men who, in the early years of the Cold War, made it their business to think about the unthinkable, and to design the game...
Herman Kahn, the most celebrated and controversial nuclear strategist of his day, later to be known also as a futurist, political scientist, geo-strat. Biography.
Jul 19, 2023 · The “ladder of escalation” was the brainchild of an American strategist called Herman Kahn. In his book On Escalation (1965) Kahn presented a “generalised (or abstract) scenario” made up of 44 “rungs” that the world might climb to pass from crisis to Armageddon.
Mar 4, 2022 · Herman Kahn, though he passed away almost four decades ago, passed away suddenly in July in 1983, and remains in many ways the guiding spirit of this organization. But Herman was much more than simply an organizational founder and builder.
