homework- fat man

Herman Khan is an individual that was born in the year of 1922. Khan went to U.C.L.A. and majored in physics. During WW2 he served in the Pacific in a non-combat position. He worked in the making of the hydrogen bomb in a laboratory near Berkley. He also was a part of “rand”, which is a research / think tank of the cold war era. In Fat Man Khan is described as a person that would always think ahead, he would always try to find a different way of viewing things. Khan also wrote a book titled On Thermonuclear War. This book presents the problems of nuclear war as not so big. The book represents the problems of genetic deformities and radiation hazards as something that could be managed.

The main ideas of the book that Herman Khan wrote is that nuclear war is terrible, but that well get over it. The book mentions that nuclear war is possible and winnable. The book gives a lot of different hard to imagine scenarios on nuclear war. In the reading it mentions that after nuclear war deformities in babies would rise but that there are deformities in babies anyway. Another thing it mentions is that in case of a nuclear war old people should eat the food with radiation because they would die before cancer could get them.