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What is the absolute craziest book you've read? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by kawaiitophat@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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I'll start, so as a teen I stumbled across a book called," Someone comes to town, someone leaves town." The synopsis caught me as it's about a man with a mountain as a fathera washing machine as a mother and one brother that is dead and trying to harm him. I'll admit some of the technical terms were too much for my developing mind but it has stuck with me all these years.

What is the wackiest / craziest book you've read and did you enjoy the ride?

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[–] Chemist391@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

On Thermonuclear War by Herman Kahn. Kahn was the inspiration for Dr. Strangelove. The book goes into remarkably granular detail regarding nuclear game theory, civil defense/resilience to nuclear war, and various schools of thought about optimal Cold War strategy.

He was very influential on both sides of the Iron Curtain. It's wild because he really goes there in terms of imagining actually fighting and winning a nuclear war for the stated purpose of making such a war less likely.