The New Yorker, First Read

Herman Kahn was a futurist that gave lectures on the deterrence theory. Princeton University Press made a book on his lectures called "On Thermonuclear War". He entered a Ph. D. Program at Caltech but he failed to pass. He spent a semester at Princeton before he started lecturing. His book was about how nuclear war is possible and that the nuclear war is winnable.
He gives a lot of different examples of what would happen in nuclear warfare such as millions of people will die and parts of the planet will be too dangerous to be inhabitable. He says that the war nuclear war brings a new element after the war is over. It's the survivability, he says that it would cause of incovenience and make life unpleasant but life is already inconvenient and unpleasant as well as saying that 4% of babies have birth defects so a little more wouldn't matter.