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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. He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation.
- February 15, 1922, Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S.
- On Thermonuclear War
Mar 18, 2024 · 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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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 old.
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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 plan...
Biography. Herman Kahn, the most celebrated and controversial nuclear strategist of his day, later to be known also as a futurist, political scientist, geo-strategist and founder and director of the Hudson Institute "think tank," began his career in the late 1940s with the Rand Corporation as a physicist and mathematician.
Mar 4, 2022 · February 15th, 2022. Would've been the 100th birthday of Hudson Institute Founder Herman Kahn. 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.
Jul 8, 1983 · Herman Kahn, 61, a leading strategic theorist who declared that nuclear conflict is both inevitable and survivable and a futurist who believed that coming generations would be free of want and...