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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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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...
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 a nuclear strategist, political scientist, geo-strategist and founder of the Hudson Institute. He wrote influential books on nuclear war, arms control, economic development, global trends and futures studies.
Jul 8, 1983 · Herman Kahn, one of the nation's leading thinkers on nuclear strategies and the future, died of a heart attack yesterday morning at his home in Chappaqua, N.Y. He was 61 years...
Mar 4, 2022 · He was arguably the most famous public intellectual of his day, a pioneer in an extraordinarily diverse set of fields from strategic studies to nuclear deterrence, escalations theory, systems theory, global economic development, and future studies, just to name a few areas.
