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Herman Kahn

Born: 15-Feb-1922
Birthplace: Bayonne, NJ
Died: 7-Jul-1983
Location of death: Chappaqua, NY
Cause of death: Stroke
Remains: Buried, Fair Ridge Cemetery, Chappaqua, NY

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Scholar, Military

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Hudson Institute founder

Military service: US Army Signal Corps

Colleague of Albert Wohlstetter at RAND.

Father: (Polish immigrant)
Mother: (Polish immigrant)

    University: BS, University of California at Los Angeles
    University: MS, California Institute of Technology

    Hudson Institute Founder (1961-)
    RAND Corporation Defense Analyst (1947-61)
    American Civil Liberties Union
    Americans for Democratic Action
    Polish Ancestry
    Risk Factors: Obesity

Author of books:
On Thermonuclear War (1960)
Thinking About the Unthinkable (1962)
On Escalation (1965)
The Year 2000 (1967, with Anthony J. Wiener)
Things to Come (1972, with Barry Bruce-Briggs)
The Next 200 Years (1976, with William Brown and Leon Martel)
The Japanese Challenge (1979)
The Coming Boom (1982)


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