Herman Kahn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1102520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Herman Kahn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Herman |
| FAMILY NAME | Kahn |
| SIGNATURE | KAHN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | RAND Corporation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
World Economic Development: 1979 And Beyond
The Resourceful Earth, a Response to Global 2000
The Resourceful Earth: A Response to Global 2000
The Resourceful Earth: A Response to Global 2000
The Resourceful Earth: A Response to Global 2000
Will She Be Right? The Future of Australia
INTRODUCTIONnn This book outlines what we believe are the major issues facingnAustralia for the next ten to twenty years and beyond. We havenconcentrated on economic issues, and to a lesser degree politicalnissues, both domestic and international. We mention variousnsocial, cultural, and technological issues, though we do not dealnwith them in detail. Indeed, the book as a whole is more generalnthan specific, but that, we feel, can be a strength …
The Coming Boom: Economic, Political, and Social
The great modernization
The Japanese Challenge
Scénario pour 200 ans
The Next 200 Years: A Scenario for America and the World
In this work the authors, with assistance of the staff of the Hudson Institute, confront the issue of the second half of the twentieth century; whether technological and economic growth tends to destroy mankind or to improve the prospects for peace and prosperity. The population explosion, coupled with economic growth, could prove catastrophic within a century, or so say the prophets of doom; therefore, economic growth must be severely limited. M…
Things to Come: Thinking about the Seventies and Eighties
Thinking the Unthinkable: Or Forecasting the Future in the Federal Bureaucracy
Things to Come
Some Speculations on U.S. Drug Use
This paper distinguishes three principal purposes of drug use: for social control, for pleasure, and for medical and quasi‐medical reasons. The argument is made that a traditional view of the future as a leisure society may lead us to focus disproportionately on forms of drug use that have a pleasure or “mind expansion” motive. While acknowledging the likelihood of more drug use of these kinds, the authors offer a number of reasons why the greate…
Japan and Pacific Asia in the 1970s
Issues of Thermonuclear War Termination
The possibility of thermonuclear war is here faced and its termination probed, in view of the fact that the missiles for such a war are already in existence and its actuality is therefore not truly "unthinkable." The premise is advanced that the '70's are perhaps the last decade of safety from such a war. Features of a modal model are explored, and six basic and omnipresent threats are discussed. The concept of a war of reciprocal reprisals is pr…
La multiforme problemática del Terror Termonuclear
If Negotiations Fail
The Study of the Future
Our Alternatives in Europe
On Escalation: Metaphors and Scenarios
On Escalation. Metaphors and Scenarios
Practical Consequences of the Theoretical Study of Defense Policy
A Debate on the question of civil defence: From Commentary January 1962
On Escalation. Metaphors and Scenarios
On Thermonuclear War
The Resourceful Earth: A Response to Global 2000
Will She Be Right? The Future of Australia
INTRODUCTIONnn This book outlines what we believe are the major issues facingnAustralia for the next ten to twenty years and beyond. We havenconcentrated on economic issues, and to a lesser degree politicalnissues, both domestic and international. We mention variousnsocial, cultural, and technological issues, though we do not dealnwith them in detail. Indeed, the book as a whole is more generalnthan specific, but that, we feel, can be a strength …
Issues of Thermonuclear War Termination
The possibility of thermonuclear war is here faced and its termination probed, in view of the fact that the missiles for such a war are already in existence and its actuality is therefore not truly "unthinkable." The premise is advanced that the '70's are perhaps the last decade of safety from such a war. Features of a modal model are explored, and six basic and omnipresent threats are discussed. The concept of a war of reciprocal reprisals is pr…
The Resourceful Earth, a Response to Global 2000
The Resourceful Earth: A Response to Global 2000
The Resourceful Earth: A Response to Global 2000
The Japanese Challenge
Some Speculations on U.S. Drug Use
This paper distinguishes three principal purposes of drug use: for social control, for pleasure, and for medical and quasi‐medical reasons. The argument is made that a traditional view of the future as a leisure society may lead us to focus disproportionately on forms of drug use that have a pleasure or “mind expansion” motive. While acknowledging the likelihood of more drug use of these kinds, the authors offer a number of reasons why the greate…
The feasibility of war and deterrence
Deterrent or Defense, A Fresh Look at the West's Military Position. B. H. Liddell Hart
On Thermonuclear War
A Debate on the question of civil defence: From Commentary January 1962
On Escalation: Metaphors and Scenarios
On Escalation. Metaphors and Scenarios
Practical Consequences of the Theoretical Study of Defense Policy
Our Alternatives in Europe
If Negotiations Fail
The Study of the Future
La multiforme problemática del Terror Termonuclear
Issues of Thermonuclear War Termination
The possibility of thermonuclear war is here faced and its termination probed, in view of the fact that the missiles for such a war are already in existence and its actuality is therefore not truly "unthinkable." The premise is advanced that the '70's are perhaps the last decade of safety from such a war. Features of a modal model are explored, and six basic and omnipresent threats are discussed. The concept of a war of reciprocal reprisals is pr…
Some Speculations on U.S. Drug Use
This paper distinguishes three principal purposes of drug use: for social control, for pleasure, and for medical and quasi‐medical reasons. The argument is made that a traditional view of the future as a leisure society may lead us to focus disproportionately on forms of drug use that have a pleasure or “mind expansion” motive. While acknowledging the likelihood of more drug use of these kinds, the authors offer a number of reasons why the greate…
Japan and Pacific Asia in the 1970s
Things to Come
Things to Come: Thinking about the Seventies and Eighties
Thinking the Unthinkable: Or Forecasting the Future in the Federal Bureaucracy
The Next 200 Years: A Scenario for America and the World
In this work the authors, with assistance of the staff of the Hudson Institute, confront the issue of the second half of the twentieth century; whether technological and economic growth tends to destroy mankind or to improve the prospects for peace and prosperity. The population explosion, coupled with economic growth, could prove catastrophic within a century, or so say the prophets of doom; therefore, economic growth must be severely limited. M…
Scénario pour 200 ans
The Japanese Challenge
The great modernization
The Coming Boom: Economic, Political, and Social
Will She Be Right? The Future of Australia
INTRODUCTIONnn This book outlines what we believe are the major issues facingnAustralia for the next ten to twenty years and beyond. We havenconcentrated on economic issues, and to a lesser degree politicalnissues, both domestic and international. We mention variousnsocial, cultural, and technological issues, though we do not dealnwith them in detail. Indeed, the book as a whole is more generalnthan specific, but that, we feel, can be a strength …
The Resourceful Earth: A Response to Global 2000
The Resourceful Earth, a Response to Global 2000
Political science (23 works) · Law (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Global Energy and Sustainability Research (5 works) · Earth (classical element (4 works) · International trade (4 works) · Astrobiology (3 works) · Development economics (3 works) · History (3 works)