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1960 book by Herman Kahn
On Thermonuclear War is a 1960 book by Herman Kahn, a military strategist at the RAND Corporation. It was written one year before he left RAND to form
On_Thermonuclear_War
Military conflict that deploys nuclear weaponry
nuclear war". Current Affairs Bulletin. 59 (7). "Critique of Nuclear Extinction – Brian Martin 1982". "The Effects of a Global Thermonuclear War". www.johnstonsarchive
Nuclear_warfare
American futurist (1922–1983)
posited the idea of a "winnable" nuclear exchange in his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War, for which he was one of the historical inspirations for the eponymous
Herman_Kahn
2024 book by Annie Jacobsen
against the United States, showing how the conflict escalates to global thermonuclear war within 72 minutes, leading to nuclear winter and 5 billion deaths
Nuclear_War:_A_Scenario
Form of conflict that could happen after a massive nuclear exchange
Potential for War". World Politics. 10 (1): 49–62. doi:10.2307/2009224. JSTOR 2009224. S2CID 154754481. Kahn, Herman (2011-12-31). On Thermonuclear War. Transaction
Broken-backed_war_theory
1983 science-fiction film directed by John Badham
titles such as "Theaterwide Biotoxic and Chemical Warfare" and "Global Thermonuclear War", but cannot proceed further. Two hacker friends explain the concept
WarGames
Potential result of major nuclear war
following a full thermonuclear war would fall for several years by 7 to 8 °C (13 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit) on average. Early Cold War-era studies suggested
Nuclear_holocaust
Cold War-era nuclear weapons control system
Lethal autonomous weapon Mount Yamantaw Mutual assured destruction On Thermonuclear War (book) Operation Looking Glass Samson Option Space Cowboys (film)
Dead_Hand
Construct which could destroy all life on a planet or a planet itself
(2011). On Thermonuclear War. War and Peace Research. Transaction Publishers. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-4128-1559-8. Kahn, Herman (1960). On Thermonuclear War. Princeton
Doomsday_device
2006 video game
subtitled Everybody Dies in the North American version and Global Thermonuclear War in the European version) is a real-time strategy game created by independent
DEFCON_(video_game)
1964 film directed by Stanley Kubrick
a term coined in 1953 by Kahn and popularized in his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War. The characters of Buck Turgidson and Jack D. Ripper both satirize
Dr._Strangelove
Multi-stage fusion-fission nuclear weapon
A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon, or hydrogen bomb (H-bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon, using nuclear fusion. The most destructive weapons
Thermonuclear_weapon
1984 video game
Professor Falken:" appears on the screen, quickly followed by, in a box: "Select a Challenge Level from 1 to 8 for Global Thermonuclear War". After the skill level
WarGames_(video_game)
2013 Doctor Who episode
global thermonuclear war and destroy humanity as revenge for the humans attacking him – under the Martian code humanity as a whole has declared war on the
Cold_War_(Doctor_Who)
atomic bomb) or a combination of fission and nuclear fusion reactions (thermonuclear weapon), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb types release large
Nuclear_weapon
Most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested
constructed and tested. A project of the Soviet Union, it was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, tested on 30 October 1961 at the Novaya Zemlya site in the country's
Tsar_Bomba
American global policy think tank
posited the idea of a "winnable" nuclear exchange in his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War. This led to Kahn's being one of the models for the titular character
RAND_Corporation
Non-profit organization in the United States
Thermonuclear War" series, New England Journal of Medicine (1962) The Fallen Sky: Medical Consequences of Thermonuclear War (1963) Coal's Assault on Human
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Physicians_for_Social_Responsibility
opinion on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons considered the environment as a minor issue in regard to the legality of thermonuclear war but
War_and_environmental_law
1954 U.S. thermonuclear weapon test in the Marshall Islands
high-yield thermonuclear weapon design tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, as part of Operation Castle. Detonated on 1 March
Castle_Bravo
American neoconservative think tank
University on scenarios related to nuclear war. In 1960, Princeton University Press published On Thermonuclear War, a book-length expansion of Kahn's lecture
Hudson_Institute
Sixth Chinese nuclear test, 1967
the codename for China's first full-scale test of a two-staged thermonuclear device, on 17 June 1967, yielding 3.3 megatons of TNT. The sixth nuclear test
Project_639
Short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter
All Fears, Tom Clancy quotes Winston Churchill in the context of thermonuclear war: "Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman
Epigraph_(literature)
Doctrines and plans for production and use of atomic weapons
IFRI. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-12-07. Retrieved 2017-07-26. Kahn, Herman (1961). On Thermonuclear War (2nd ed.). Princeton University Press
Nuclear_strategy
Part of the post-WWII era and the Cold War
of thermonuclear war, then let us not only relax the forces pulling on the ends of the rope, let us take measures to untie that knot." Eventually, on October
Nuclear_arms_race
military intelligence computer to play games, which almost starts a thermonuclear war. Joysticks (1983) – Directed by Greydon Clark. When a top local businessman
List of films based on video games
List_of_films_based_on_video_games
Boosting can more than double the weapon's fission energy yield. Staged thermonuclear weapons are arrangements of two or more "stages", most usually two,
Nuclear_weapon_design
History of technical design of modern hydrogen bombs
design is the technical concept behind thermonuclear weapons, also known as hydrogen bombs. The design relies on the radiation implosion principle, using
History of the Teller–Ulam design
History_of_the_Teller–Ulam_design
Chinese nuclear weapons test in 1980
explosion. Yielding approximately 700 kilotons, it was a test of the thermonuclear warhead design codenamed "515", which tipped the DF-21 intermediate-range
Operation_21-716
1961 film directed by Shūe Matsubayashi
Chishū Ryū and Yumi Shirakawa. The film portrays a fictional thermonuclear World War III. Produced and distributed by Toho, it was the studio's second
The_Last_War_(film)
American high-yield thermonuclear weapon
The B-41 (also known as Mk-41) was a thermonuclear weapon deployed by the United States Strategic Air Command in the early 1960s. It was the most powerful
B41_nuclear_bomb
Nuclear weapon designed for use on a battlefield
Atomic Scientists. Retrieved April 12, 2026. Khan, Herman (1960). On Thermonuclear War. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781412815598. {{cite book}}: ISBN
Tactical_nuclear_weapon
United States thermonuclear warhead
is an American thermonuclear warhead, with an estimated yield of 475 kilotons of TNT (1,990 terajoules), and is small enough to fit on missiles with multiple
W88
3rd episode of the 3rd season of The Twilight Zone
threatened thermonuclear war if the United States refused to relent. Kennedy responded publicly seven weeks later in a televised address on July 25, 1961
The Shelter (The Twilight Zone)
The_Shelter_(The_Twilight_Zone)
1988 Belgian science fiction graphic novel trilogy drawn by Marvano
Forever War is a 1988 Belgian science fiction graphic novel trilogy drawn by Marvano and closely based on the award-winning The Forever War novel by
The_Forever_War_(comics)
Corporation analyst Herman Kahn releases On Thermonuclear War, which argues that the destructiveness of nuclear war can be limited through anti-aircraft defenses
Timeline of nuclear weapons development
Timeline_of_nuclear_weapons_development
third nuclear power. November 1: The United States tests their first thermonuclear fusion bomb, Ivy Mike. November 4: Dwight Eisenhower defeats Adlai Stevenson
Timeline_of_the_Cold_War
Soviet hydrogen bomb first tested in 1955
Soviet Union's first two-stage thermonuclear weapon test, dropped from a Tupolev Tu-16 bomber over Semipalatinsk Test Site on 22 November 1955. The yield
RDS-37
Military action to prevent an enemy from acquiring attack capabilities
Eisenhower to consider “deliberately precipitating war with the USSR in the near future,” before Soviet thermonuclear capability became a real menace. The same
Preventive_war
Hungarian-American physicist (1908–2003)
Principle of Thermonuclear Charge Design (on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the test of RDS-37 – the first Soviet two-stage thermonuclear charge"
Edward_Teller
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1955
Alikhanov, Isaak Kikoin, and A.P. Vinogradov about the dangers of a thermonuclear war, Malenkov decided to pursue a policy of peaceful coexistence with
Georgy_Malenkov
Phase of the Cold War during 1979–1985
global thermonuclear war. Historical conflicts include the Falklands War, the Iran–Iraq War, the invasion of Grenada, and the Angolan Civil War. The vast
Cold_War_(1979–1985)
holocaust fiction List of films about nuclear issues List of songs about nuclear war List of crimes involving radioactive substances List of environmental books
List of non-fiction books about nuclear issues
List_of_non-fiction_books_about_nuclear_issues
Period of history since 1945
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 1960 – Herman Kahn publishes On Thermonuclear War. November 1961 – In Fortune magazine, an article by Gilbert Burck
Atomic_Age
1952 American nuclear bomb test
multi-stage thermonuclear device, also known as the Teller–Ulam design. Ivy Mike was detonated on November 1, 1952, by the United States on the island
Ivy_Mike
Explosion from fission or fusion reaction
Ivy Mike, was detonated on 1 November 1952 at Enewetak Atoll and yielded 10 megatons of explosive force. The first thermonuclear weapon tested by the USSR
Nuclear_explosion
Paper-and-pencil game for two players
invisible to the human player. In the 1983 science-fiction film WarGames, global thermonuclear war is described as similar to tic-tac-toe, in that if all sides
Tic-tac-toe
Skipjack-class nuclear-powered submarine
apocalyptic novel On the Beach as one of the last surviving US Navy submarines after a global thermonuclear war. Phil Ochs released a song on his album Rehearsals
USS_Scorpion_(SSN-589)
American high-yield nuclear gravity bomb
The Mk/B53 was a high-yield thermonuclear bunker buster developed by the United States during the Cold War. Deployed on Strategic Air Command bombers
B53_nuclear_bomb
1979 book by Cresson Kearny
winter" surely will follow a nuclear war." This chapter provides information on the immediate effects of thermonuclear explosions, and peoples' likely reactions
Nuclear_War_Survival_Skills
Novelette by Charles Stross
expedition to Antarctica. It all ends in tears (and a fate worse than global thermonuclear annihilation – the point of that story was to inject some horror back
A_Colder_War
Topics referred to by the same term
gas-boosted fission primary used in thermonuclear weapons Colt Python, a revolver Python (codename), a British nuclear war contingency plan Operation Python
Python
End of the human species
that certain scenarios, including global thermonuclear war, would struggle to eradicate every last settlement on Earth. Physicist Willard Wells points out
Human_extinction
Military doctrine focusing on using more force in retaliation to an attack
State Office of the Historian. 14 April 1950. Kahn, Herman (1960). On Thermonuclear War. Princeton University Press. pp. 36–37. ISBN 9781412806640. {{cite
Massive_retaliation
American indie rock band
"Calamity Song". The video depicts a game, played on a tennis court by children, of simulated thermonuclear war as described in the "Eschaton" scene of David
The_Decemberists
Battle to secure patents for litigation
PC Magazine, Apple brought the patent wars to the smartphone market by its desire to "go thermonuclear war" on Google's competing Android operating system
Patent_war
fission or thermonuclear weapons. Initially, India's primary strategic concern was a conflict with China, while modern Indian policy focuses on potential
India and weapons of mass destruction
India_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
Military strategy during the Cold War with regard to the use of nuclear weapons
Nuclear War: A Scenario. Hypothetical examination of nuclear deterrence failure, showing how a nuclear first strike could escalate to global thermonuclear war
Deterrence_theory
Soviet Union program to develop nuclear weapons during and after World War II
program to develop thermonuclear weapons, opening of the nuclear arms race of the Cold War. Boosted fission and multi-stage thermonuclear weapons were developed
Soviet_atomic_bomb_project
The Allied bombing of Hamburg during World War II included numerous attacks on civilians and civic infrastructure. As a large city and industrial centre
Bombing of Hamburg in World War II
Bombing_of_Hamburg_in_World_War_II
1961–2003 US nuclear strategy document
trigger-happiness on both sides, to a two-day thermonuclear war, with horrific results in terms of both overkill and long-term effects on the world. In Tom
Single Integrated Operational Plan
Single_Integrated_Operational_Plan
1982 novel by Bernard Malamud
Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The novel focuses on Calvin Cohn, the supposed sole survivor of thermonuclear war and God's second Flood, who attempts to rebuild
God's_Grace
2009 Japanese film
not a direct sequel. In the aftermath of global thermonuclear war, three battle tested women wage war against giant mutant sandwhales in the arena Avalon(f)
Assault_Girls
1985 film by John Landis
Ruby and Keyes, a twisted contingency plan of letting the impending thermonuclear war commence to "preserve the American way of life". Back in the Soviet
Spies_Like_Us
1962 confrontation between the US and USSR
to doom the world to the catastrophe of thermonuclear war, then let us not only relax the forces pulling on the ends of the rope, let us take measures
Cuban_Missile_Crisis
Thermonuclear gravity bomb
The Mark 14 nuclear bomb was a 1950s strategic thermonuclear weapon, the first deployed solid-fuel hydrogen bomb. It was an experimental design, and only
Mark_14_nuclear_bomb
Fictional character from the Metal Gear franchise
commenting that "as evil clones go, the ones that threaten the world with thermonuclear war and eradication rank as some of the worst," and also listing him and
Liquid_Snake
History of chemical weapons in war
Allies. Although the threat of global thermonuclear war was foremost in the minds of most during the Cold War, both the Soviet and Western governments
History_of_chemical_warfare
Series of British nuclear weapons tests
culminating in the United Kingdom becoming the third recognised possessor of thermonuclear weapons, and the restoration of the nuclear Special Relationship with
Operation_Grapple
Hypothetical global-scale disaster risk
the chance of human survival from planet-wide events such as global thermonuclear war. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (est. 1945) is one of the oldest
Global_catastrophic_risk
American thermonuclear bomb design
The Mark 24 nuclear bomb was an American thermonuclear bomb design, based on the third American thermonuclear bomb test, Castle Yankee. The Mark 24 bomb
Mark_24_nuclear_bomb
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
the Soviet program of nuclear weapons, overseeing the development of thermonuclear weapons, Sakharov also did fundamental work in understanding particle
Andrei_Sakharov
1979 Doctor Who serial
actors and make Zeos run by the computer Mentalis. In his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War, the American futurist Herman Kahn wrote of a hypothetical Doomsday
The_Armageddon_Factor
Possible famine caused by nuclear war
food and supply was Herman Kahn's 1960 publication On Thermonuclear War. Kahn argued that while total war would indeed be an "unprecedented catastrophe",
Nuclear_famine
Thermonuclear warhead
versions of an American thermonuclear weapon, which were in service from 1957 to 1966. The Mark 39 design was a thermonuclear bomb and had a yield of
Mark_39_nuclear_bomb
Litigation between vendors, since 2009
January 5, 2012. "'I'm going to destroy Android': Jobs declared 'thermonuclear war' on Google". www.smh.com.au. Retrieved 2026-08-10. "Apple vs HTC: a
Smartphone_patent_wars
Residual radioactive material following a nuclear blast
the weapon, and meteorological conditions. Fission weapons and many thermonuclear weapons use a large mass of fissionable fuel (such as uranium or plutonium)
Nuclear_fallout
Series of 1950s US nuclear tests
objective of the operation was to test designs for an aircraft-deliverable thermonuclear weapon. All the devices tested, which ranged in weight from 6,520 to
Operation_Castle
Ground-launched variant of the Tomahawk cruise missile
Unlike other variants of the Tomahawk, the GLCM carried only a W84 thermonuclear warhead; no conventional capability was provided. The W84 warhead is
BGM-109G_Gryphon
Political party in the United States
USLP predicted collapse of the monetary system by November 1976 and thermonuclear war by 1977. It opposed the Rockefeller family and had a reputation for
U.S._Labor_Party
1972 novel by Don DeLillo
football novel about thermonuclear war". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 24, 2019. Taylor, Anya (1977). "Words, War, and Meditation
End_Zone
Polish mathematician and physicist (1909–1984)
participated in the Manhattan Project, originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons, recognised the concept of the cellular automaton, invented
Stanisław_Ulam
City in Hudson County, New Jersey, US
Harvard." Review of The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War Archived October 18, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, accessed December
Bayonne,_New_Jersey
Autobiography by American writer Edward Abbey
environment, for my own part I would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world". Another major theme is the sanctity of
Desert_Solitaire
American thermonuclear bomb
or Mk-15, was a 1950s American thermonuclear bomb, the first relatively lightweight (7,600 lb (3,400 kg)) thermonuclear bomb created by the United States
Mark_15_nuclear_bomb
1945 attacks in Japan during WWII
weapons but was frozen out at the end of the war, exploded an atomic device in 1952 and a thermonuclear weapon in 1957. Jones 1985, p. 7. Jones 1985,
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki
Times". "AFI|Catalog". "WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks into Stars". Archived from the original on 12 July 2011. "[The Daily
List of films with plots centered on video games
List_of_films_with_plots_centered_on_video_games
Machine allowing an individual to die quickly with minimal pain
hypothetical thermonuclear war simulated using computers actually die, without damaging any infrastructure. In the end, the computers are destroyed, the war can
Euthanasia_device
American governmental official (1896–1974)
as that experienced by Pacific Islanders following the Castle Bravo thermonuclear test. Strauss was the driving force behind physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's
Lewis_Strauss
German-born British physicist and atomic spy (1911–1988)
After the end of the war, in April 1946, he attended a conference at Los Alamos that discussed the possibility of a thermonuclear weapon; one month later
Klaus_Fuchs
Experimental fusion reactor in the United Kingdom
short for Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly, was a major experiment in the early history of fusion power research. Based on the pinch plasma confinement
ZETA_(fusion_reactor)
American thermonuclear gravity bomb
The B83 nuclear bomb is an unguided variable-yield thermonuclear weapon developed by the United States during the late 1970s. Designed by Lawrence Livermore
B83_nuclear_bomb
Video game industry in the United States
the U.S. would be victorious in a Thermonuclear war with the Soviet Union. The idea of video games that were usable on televisions was conceived by the
Video games in the United States
Video_games_in_the_United_States
Ballistic missile with a range of more than 5,500 kilometres
primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads). Conventional, chemical, and biological weapons can also be
Intercontinental ballistic missile
Intercontinental_ballistic_missile
1966 Chinese atmospheric nuclear test
People's Republic of China. Detonated on May 9, 1966, at Lop Nur, it was the first Chinese test to use thermonuclear reactions in a layer cake design, and
Project_596L
Low-yield thermonuclear weapon
defined as a type of enhanced radiation weapon (ERW), is a low-yield thermonuclear weapon designed to maximize lethal neutron radiation in the immediate
Neutron_bomb
Nuclear cruise missile
launched cruise missile armed with a thermonuclear warhead which was developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Kh-20 cruise missile was designed
Kh-20
weapons dropped on Japan—not the more powerful weapons developed more recently. Diagrams of the general principles of operation of thermonuclear weapons have
Nuclear weapons in popular culture
Nuclear_weapons_in_popular_culture
Reaction that splits an atomic nucleus
provided by fast neutrons (such as those produced by nuclear fusion in thermonuclear weapons). While some of the neutrons released from the fission of 238
Nuclear_fission
American hydrogen bomb design
bomb was a large American thermonuclear bomb (hydrogen bomb), based on the design of the Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device ever test fired. The
Mark_16_nuclear_bomb
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