Prologue: A Matter of Faith

1. How Many Kahns Can There Be?

2. The Cold War Avant-Garde at RAND

3. The Real Dr. Strangelove

4. An Operational but Undetected Capability

5. How to Build a World with Artful Intuition

6. Faith and Insight in War-Gaming

7. The Mineshaft Gap

8. On Thermonuclear War

9. Comedy of the Unspeakable

10. Mass Murder or the Spirit of Humanism?

Epilogue: A Comic Philosophy

Abbreviations

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Photo by Sharon Josepho

Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi is an independent scholar living in Florida.