Sunday, February 8, 2026

ABOUT THOSE "LUNAR PLAYGROUNDS"--AS FORCASTED BY HERMAN KAHN 1969--AND KAHN AND RAND--THEIR PARTING OF WAYS.....

KAHN----the "American Futurist" Herman Kahn, founder of the Hudson Institute in 1961, along with Max Singer, and Oscar M. Ruebhausen.

FROM THE PATENT TRADER, 1969, LUNAR PLAYGROUND FORECASTED BY KAHN...CLICK ON THE IMAGE.

FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW: In 1960, Princeton University Press published On Thermonuclear War, a book-length expansion of Kahn's lecture notes while employed by Rand Corporation. Major controversies ensued, and in the end, Kahn and RAND had a parting of ways. Kahn moved to Croton-on-Hudson, intending to establish a new think tank, less hierarchical and bureaucratic in its organization. MORE HERE.

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