Herman Kahn

Herman Kahn (15 Februari 1922 – 7 Juli 1983) adalah pendiri Hudson Institute dan salah satu futuris ternama pada akhir abad ke-20. Ia awalnya dikenal sebagai strategiwan militer dan teoriwan sistem saat masih bekerja di RAND Corporation. Ia kemudian dikenal karena menganalisis potensi dampak perang nuklir dan menyarankan berbagai cara untuk meningkatkan kemungkinan selamat. Berkat analisis tersebut, Kahn menjadi satu dari tiga inspirasi bagi tokoh utama film satir komedi hitam Dr. Strangelove besutan Stanley Kubrick.

Teori-teorinya sangat memengaruhi perkembangan strategi nuklir Amerika Serikat.

Karya 
Di luar bidang fisika dan statistika, karya-karya Kahn meliputi:
 1960. On Thermonuclear War. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-313-20060-2
 1962.  Thinking about the unthinkable. Horizon Press.
 1965 On escalation: metaphors and scenarios. Praeger. 
 1967. The Year 2000: a framework for speculation on the next thirty-three years. MacMillan. ISBN 0-02-560440-6. With Anthony Wiener.
 1968 Can we win in Viet Nam?. Praeger. Kahn with four other authors: Gastil, Raymond D.; Pfaff, William; Stillman, Edmund; Armbruster, Frank E.
 1970. The Emerging Japanese Superstate: challenge and response. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-274670-0
 1971. The Japanese challenge: The success and failure of economic success. Morrow; Andre Deutsch. ISBN 0-688-08710-8
 1972. Things to come: thinking about the seventies and eighties. MacMillan. ISBN 0-02-560470-8. With B. Bruce-Briggs.
 1973. Herman Kahnsciousness: the megaton ideas of the one-man think tank. New American Library. Selected and edited by Jerome Agel.
 1974. The future of the corporation. Mason & Lipscomb. ISBN 0-88405-009-2
 1976. The next 200 Years: a scenario for America and the world. Morrow. ISBN 0-688-08029-4
 1979. World economic development: 1979 and beyond. William Morrow; Croom Helm. ISBN 0-688-03479-9. With Hollender, Jeffrey, and Hollender, John A.
 1981. Will she be right? The future of Australia. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 0-7022-1569-4. With Thomas Pepper.
 1983. The Coming Boom: economic, political, and social. Simon & Schuster; Hutchinson. ISBN 0-671-49265-9
 1984 Thinking about the unthinkable in the 1980s. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-671-47544-4 
 The nature and feasibility of war, deterrence, and arms control (Central nuclear war monograph series), (Hudson Institute)
 A slightly optimistic world context for 1975–2000 (Hudson Institute. HI)
 Social limits to growth: "creeping stagnation" vs. "natural and inevitable" (HPS paper)
 A new kind of class struggle in the United States? (Corporate Environment Program. Research memorandum)

Karya terbitan RAND Corporation yang melibatkan Kahn:
 The nature and feasibility of war and deterrence, RAND Corporation paper P-1888-RC, 1960
 Some specific suggestions for achieving early non-military defense capabilities and initiating long-range programs, RAND Corporation research memorandum RM-2206-RC, 1958
 (team led by Herman Kahn) Report on a study of Non-Military Defense, RAND Corporation report R-322-RC, 1958
 Herman Kahn and Irwin Mann, War Gaming, RAND Corporation paper P-1167, 1957
 Herman Kahn and Irwin Mann, Ten common pitfalls, RAND research memorandum RM-1937-PR, 1957
 Herman Kahn, Stochastic (Monte Carlo) attenuation analysis, Santa, Monica, Calif., Rand Corp., 1949

Lihat pula 

 Triad nuklir

Catatan kaki

Bacaan lanjutan 

 Barry Bruce-Briggs, Supergenius: The mega-worlds of Herman Kahn, North American Policy Press
 Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-01714-5 [reviewed by Christopher Coker in the Times Literary Supplement], nº 5332, 10 June 2005, p. 19.
 Fred Kaplan, The Wizards of Armageddon, Stanford Nuclear Age Series, ISBN 0-8047-1884-9
 Kate Lenkowsky, The Herman Kahn Center of the Hudson Institute, Hudson Institute
 Susan Lindee, "Science as Comic Metaphysics", Science 309: 383–4, 2005.
 Herbert I. London, forward by Herman Kahn, Why Are They Lying to Our Children (Against the doomsayer futurists), ISBN 0-9673514-2-1
 Louis Menand, " Fat Man: Herman Kahn and the Nuclear Age", The New Yorker, June 27, 2005.
 Claus Pias, "Hermann Kahn – Szenarien für den Kalten Krieg", Zurich: Diaphanes 2009, ISBN 978-3-935300-90-2

Pranala luar 

 Essays about and by Herman Kahn 
 
 "Herman Kahn's Doomsday Machine"  by Andrew Yale Glikman, in "CYB + ORG = (COLD) WAR MACHINE", FrAme , 26 September 1999.
 RAND Corporation unclassified papers by Herman Kahn, 1948–59
 Hudson Institute unclassified articles and papers by Herman Kahn, 1962–84 

Kelahiran 1922
Kematian 1983
Ateis Amerika Serikat
Yahudi-Amerika
Ateis Yahudi
Alumni Institut Teknologi California
Futurolog
Tokoh dari Bayonne, New Jersey
Realis politik
Ilmuwan sistem Amerika Serikat
Tokoh RAND Corporation
Strategiwan nuklir