https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:37:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2009/07/herman-khan-about-doomsday-machine Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:22:48 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=572 50 years ago Herman Khan coined the term in his book “On thermonuclear war”. His ideas are still important. Now we can read what he really said online. His main ideas are that DM is feasable, that it will cost around 10–100 billion USD, it will be much cheaper in the future and there are good rational reasons to built it as ultimate mean of defence, but better not to built it, because it will lead to  DM-race between states with more and more dangerous and effective DM as outcome. And this race will not be  stable, but provoking one side to strike first. This book and especially this chapter inspired “Dr. Strangelove” movie of Kubrick.
Herman Khan. On Doomsday machine.

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