Worlds of Herman Kahn - The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War Ghamari-Tabrizi SharonPevná vazba
Worlds of Herman Kahn - The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War Ghamari-Tabrizi SharonPevná vazba Herman Kahn was the only nuclear strategist in America who might have made a living as a standup…
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Worlds of Herman Kahn - The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War Ghamari-Tabrizi SharonPevná vazba
Herman Kahn was the only nuclear strategist in America who might have made a living as a standup comedian. In telling the story of Herman Kahn, whose 1960 book On Thermonuclear War catapulted him into celebrity, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi captures an era that is still very much with us - a time whose innocence, gruesome nuclear humor, and outrageous but deadly serious visions of annihilation have their echoes in the known unknowns and unknown unknowns that guide policymakers in our own embattled world. Indeed, galumphing around stages across the country, joking his way through one grotesque thermonuclear scenario after another, he came frighteningly close.
Portraying a life that combined aspects of Lenny Bruce, Hitchcock, and Kubrick, Ghamari-Tabrizi presents not one Herman Kahn, but many - one who spoke the suffocatingly dry argot of the nuclear experts, another whose buffoonery conveyed