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Science 15 July 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5733, pp. 383 - 384
DOI: 10.1126/science.1114032
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Science as Comic Metaphysics

Susan Lindee

The Worlds of Herman Kahn
The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War
by Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005. 395 pp. $26.95, £17.95, €24.90. ISBN 0-674-01714-5.
In the course of exploring the many facets of the life of the influential nuclear strategist, the author also addresses how we deal with "the unknown unknowns of national security."
The reviewer is in the Department of History and Sociology of Science, 303 Logan Hall, University of Pennsylvania, 249 South 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304, USA. E-mail: mlindee{at}sas.upenn.edu

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