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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Herman Kahn]] was an American physicist.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Kahn was born in New Jersey and grew up in the Bronx until his parents divorced and he moved with his mother to Los Angeles. After graduating from High School in 1940, he studied Physics at the University of California at Los Angeles, before serving in the Pacific theater of World War Two.<ref name=Abella96-97>Alex Abella, ''Soldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire'', Mariner Books, 2009, pp.96-97.</ref><br />
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==Rand Corporation==<br />
Through his friend [[Sam Cohen]], the physicist who invented the neutron bomb, Kahn got a job at the [[RAND Corporation]] in 1947, remaining there until 1961.<ref name=Abella97>Alex Abella, ''Soldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire'', Mariner Books, 2009, pp.97.</ref><br />
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In the early 1950s, Kahn came under investigation from the [[FBI]], because of allegations that his wife [[Rosalie Jane Heilner]] had family links to Communists, and because an FBI informant linked him to an alleged Communist front, the [[Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born]].<ref name=Abella98>Alex Abella, ''Soldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire'', Mariner Books, 2009, pp.98.</ref><br />
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In the mid-1950s, Kahn was advisor to the [[Gaither Committee]] on security resources.<ref name=Abella101>Alex Abella, ''Soldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire'', Mariner Books, 2009, pp.101.</ref> <br />
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In 1960, Kahn published ''On Thermonuclear War''.<ref name=Abella101>Alex Abella, ''Soldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire'', Mariner Books, 2009, pp.101.</ref><br />
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==Hudson Institute==<br />
After leaving RAND, Kahn founded the [[Hudson Institute]] in New York with a $1 million grant from the [[Rockefeller Foundation]].<ref name=Abella103>Alex Abella, ''Soldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire'', Mariner Books, 2009, pp.103.</ref><br />
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Kahn died in 1983.<ref name=Abella104>Alex Abella, ''Soldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire'', Mariner Books, 2009, pp.104.</ref><br />
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==External resources==<br />
*NameBase [http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?Na=Kahn%2C+Herman KAHN HERMAN]<br />
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==Affiliations==<br />
*[[American Civil Liberties Union]]<br />
*[[Americans for Democratic Action]]<ref name=Abella98>Alex Abella, ''Soldiers of Reason: The Rand Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire'', Mariner Books, 2009, pp.98.</ref><br />
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==Notes==<br />
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[[Category:United States|Kahn, Herman]]</div>Tom Griffin