When President Ronald Reagan eulogized Herman Kahn in 1983 as “a futurist who welcomed the future,” he captured the essence of conservatism’s most unexpected optimist. This Cold War nuclear strategist ...
The lessons of Herman Kahn. While conscientious civilians kept an eye out for suspicious aircraft, Herman Kahn went swimming. A corporation sympathetic to Kahn’s concern for civil defense had offered ...
THE YEAR 2000 by Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Wiener. 431 pages. A/lacmi/-lan. $9.95. The 20th century is approaching old age. Just 33 years away lies the birth of a new millennium, an event that will ...
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers in America and around the world: Sure, I know that there’s lots of time left. But Herman Kahn’s 1 200-year wager has been in a slump for its first 50 ...
The Worlds of Herman Kahn The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War by Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi Harvard University Press, 386 pp., $26.95 HERMAN KAHN, SHARON GHAMARI-Tabrizi tells us, was "the only ...