Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Prologue: A Matter of Faith 1
4. 1: How Many Kahns Can There Be? 10
5. 2: The Cold War Avant-Garde at RAND 46
6. 3: The Real Dr. Strangelove 61
7. 4: An Operational but Undetected Capability 83
8. 5: How to Build a World with Artful Intuition 124
9. 6: Faith and Insight in War-Gaming 149
10. 7: The Mineshaft Gap 181
11. 8: On Thermonuclear War 203
12. 9: Comedy of the Unspeakable 236
13. 10: Mass Murder or the Spirit of Humanism? 281
14. Epilogue: A Comic Philosophy 310
15. Abbreviations 317
16. Notes 321
17. Acknowledgments 371
18. Index 375