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Herman Kahn, an Uncommon card
Herman Kahn was an American physicist and a founding member of the Hudson Institute, regarded as an eminent futurist of the latter part of the twentieth century.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 78
- Power
- 153
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 53,000
Power 153 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation.
- There, he analyzed the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommended ways to improve survivability during the Cold War.
- Kahn 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 character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Herman Kahn article was read about 53,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 78: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Herman Kahn (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : O'Halloran, Thomas J., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
