His circle included the most prominent strategists of the period: Bernard Brodie, Albert Wohlstetter, and Thomas Schelling, among others. Virtually every substantative argument Kahn made about deterrence could be found in pages written by these men. OTW (On Thermonuclear War) was not a grotesque sideshow.

"The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War" (2005), Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi - Quotes About Brodie