Talk:Megadeath

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On 24 May 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The decision was "keep" but without a clear recommendation of the form of "keep". Options discussed included "keep as is", "keep as redirect to Megadeth" (a plausible spelling error), and "keep as disambiguation page". See Votes for deletion/Megadeath for a record of the debate. Further discussion should occur on this page. Rossami (talk) 22:14, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Megadeath was not a word used by Herman Kahn in "On Thermonuclear War" or other books and talks
I've read Herman Kahn's books On Thermonuclear War, On Escalation, and Thinking About the Unthinkable, and his testimony to the June 1959 Congressional Hearings on the "Biological and Environmental Effects of Nuclear War", and nowhere does he use the term "megadeath", which as far as I'm aware was invented by Stanley Kubrick in his 1964 film "Dr Strangelove". I've also read arm-waving apocryphal allegations made by recent "biographers" of Herman Kahn, which claim he used "megadeath" in the 1959 hearings (where they also misrepresent his excellent testimony entirely), which he clearly did not from the published testimony. Can anyone cite any examples of Kahn's writings (including page numbers, or quotations of sentences) containing "megadeath"? 82.21.58.162 (talk) 21:24, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[[

Megadeath is not used by Herman Kahn in any book, article, congressional testimony, or interview
This article falsely asserts that "megadeath" was popularized in "On Thermonuclear War". It is not used once in "On Thermonuclear War" or any other book, article or statement by Kahn. 86.174.217.252 (talk) 08:42, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I've rewritten the article, but we're still short a definitive citation. --Dystopos (talk) 15:37, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
 * See also Talk:Herman Kahn. --Dystopos (talk) 18:20, 25 February 2012 (UTC)