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Herman Kahn

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Herman Kahn kän , 1922-83, American military strategist. b. Bayonne, N.J. After graduate work in physics at the California Institute of Technology, he joined the Rand Corporation . Unlike scholars such as Bernard Brodie , he believed that nuclear war could be won. At Rand, he studied the application of such analytic techniques as game theory and systems analysis to military theory. In 1961 he founded the Hudson Institute, where he conducted research into questions of national security and the future. His writings include On Thermonuclear War (1961), Thinking about the Unthinkable... Read more

Herman Kahn
...differs only in degree from conventional war and ought to be analyzed and planned in the same way. In 1961 he established the Hudson Institute for research into matters of national security and public policy. Herman Kahn Herman Kahn Herman Kahn Read more

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...x2013;dates from the 1950s and is a distinctively social scientific enterprise. Early predictions such as those of Herman Kahn and Anthony Wiener in The Year 2000 (1967) tended to be optimistic, and even utopian. This pattern changed with the... Read more

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	OBIT - TAYLOR, HERMAN WARD JR. ; TAYLOR, Herman Ward Jr., 67, of 16 Houston Street, Lexington, Virginia...March 12, 1935, in Washington D.C., the son of the late Herman Ward Taylor, Sr. and Ruth Eborn Taylor. He grew up in Raleigh...his retirement in 2000. Survivors include his wife, Betty Kahn Taylor of Lexington; his children, Jennifer ... Read more
	Revived `Mack and Mabel' beats original, says Herman ; ...interesting and authentic. It's the real story," said Herman. "Francine did a lot more research than we did when we...Normand's stage technique. What's never been in question is Herman's score, which he said has become his favorite, not least...one of the few "tough love" songs in musical theater. Herman ... Read more
	Herman J. Kramer ; Herman J. Kramer, 90, who started as a clerk in a wholesale jewelry...had to go right to work then," said his daughter, Clarice Kahn. "So, all his business skills were self-taught." After a...include his two sons, Nathan and Stanley; a daughter Clarice Kahn; a brother; eight granchildren, and five great ... Read more
	John Charles Babbitt; Evelyn Colimitras; Jorge C. Dominguez. Sharon Ann Ernst. Nada Fields. Mary Augustina Givins ; Maria Hernandez. Gladys Naomi Hixon. Michael Anthony Moore. James M. Riewer. Florence Irene Sampson. Rhea Shaffer . Richard S. Thomas. Marie R. Wade. Herman O. Wilson ; ...Redondo Beach, CA; sister, Hilda (Julio) Chavez of Carson, CA; 26 niecesand nephews; sister-in-law, Myriam Kahn of Lima, Peru; sister-in-law, Yda Kahn of Lima, Peru; and mother- in-law, Lola Recalde of Lima,Peru; and many warm, loving friends. Visitation... Read more
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