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Herman Kahn (1922-1983) was a renowned political scientist, economist, historian geo-strategist, and considered by many to be the founder of futurology as a serious field of study. Associated for many years with the RAND Corporation, he was the founding director of the first independent “think tank,” the Hudson Institute. Among his many books are Thinking About the Unthinkable, The Year 2000, The Next 200 Years, The Coming Boom, The Resourceful Earth, and On Thermonuclear War.
"On Thermonuclear War was controversial when it was first published-and still is, today. No light reading, at well over 600 pages it packs in details from across disciplines and was widely read on both sides of the Iron Curtain: today its many insights on military strategies, issues, and the logic of amassing thermonuclear armaments still apply. It was the first book to examine the underlying logic of making and keeping nuclear weapons, originally created from a series of lectures, and provides both military and college-level collections with strong insights on military might and strategy." —The Midwest Book Review
"Kahn's classic On Thermonuclear War had been reissued by Transaction Publishing ... This could not come at a better time. Human nature has not made much moral progress since the end of the Third Reich but its very worst instinct for total destruction has, so far, been held at bay by the certainty of self-destruction. We need someone to remind us again of how to think about the unthinkable." —Mark Safranski, zenpundit.com
"New thoughts, particularly those which contradict current assumptions, are always painful for the human mind to contemplate. On Thermonuclear War is filled with such thoughts."
—Hubert H. Humphrey
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- PublisherPrinceton University Press
- Publication date1960
- ISBN 10 0691069115
- ISBN 13 9780691069111
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages672
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Book Description Condition: Good. NY: Princeton Univ Press 1960. 1st edition. Hardcover 8vo 651 pgs. Near very good in a good dust jacket. Spine ends lightly bumped and worn. Foxing spots to edges of textblock and to endpapers. Ink owner name at top of front endpaper. Contents clean and binding sound. Jacket edgeworn, chipped and has small edge tears. Rear panel is foxed and soiled. (Nuclear War) Inquire if you need further information. Seller Inventory # B38234-M-GEN
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