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 ...

When Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove first appeared in movie theaters in 1964, it was Peter Sellers’s portrayal of the wheelchair-bound, ex-Nazi adviser to the president on nuclear strategy that ...

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 ...

A man working with Herman Kahn, a large, big-idea thinker about nuclear war, suggested that if escape horizontally from the cities weren’t possible, then the cities should escape vertically—deep ...

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 ...

DURING the H-bomb years it has become commonplace to say that nuclear war is “unthinkable” or “suicidal” or “preposterous,” that it would bring “mutual annihilation” or “the end of civilization,” or, ...