a collection of works that was put together by hudson ceo ken weinstein. and then there's second book just recently published on escalation which is the -- one of the classics that you can purchase. several weeks ago i was at a swearing-in of some members of the department of energy. and the person presiding announced at that point that secretary chu was being profound in "rolling stone" magazine and popular mechanics and they described him as the secretary to save the world. the speaker was not from the underpromise, overdelivered school of thinking but be that as it may, we wish the threats of the world are met by our current leadership. herman kahn is somebody who actually arguably did save the world by his work and by looking at issues that were both dangerous, difficult and complex for human beings to face both in the details and the cross currents but also in the difficulty of facing them directly.fíx i seon here. i couldn't help of thinking -- his mother wrote a book on the intelligence leading up to pearl harbor. one of the purposes of that book wa