Herman Kahn
American futurist noted for his views on nature of thermonuclear war (1922–1983)
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- Born
- Bayonne (New Jersey), 15 februari 1922
- Died
- Chappaqua (New York), 7 juli1983
- Works
- 69
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- Summary of recommendations from Crises and arms control
- Crisis and arms control
- それでも曰本は成長する
- Faustian powers and human choices
- A summary of Arizona tomorrow
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- Numerical integration of the cartesian equations of motion of a system with constraints: molecular dynamics of n-alkanes
· 1977 · cited 19,629x
- GROMACS: Fast, flexible, and free
· 2005 · cited 17,756x
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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 an eminent futurist 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. There, he analyzed the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommended ways to improve survivability during the Cold War. Kahn posited the idea of a "winnable" nuclear exchange in his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War, for which he was one of the historical inspirations for the eponymous character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove. In his commentary for Fail Safe, director Sidney Lumet remarked that the Professor Groeteschele character is also based on Herman Kahn.
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