Kim Dong-Won
School of Humanities & Social Sciences, KAIST, Korea.
Hist Sci (Tokyo). 2009;19(2):105-18.
Two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 brought the unexpected liberation of Korea from the 35-year Japanese occupation. Koreans therefore had a very favorable and positive image of the nuclear bomb and nuclear energy from the beginning. The image of the nuclear bomb as "savior" was strengthened during the Korean War when the United States openly mentioned the possible use of the nuclear bomb against North Korean and Chinese military. After the end of the Korean War in July 1953 South Koreans strongly supported the development of the nuclear bomb in order to deter another North Korean invasion. When the US government provided South Korea with a research nuclear reactor in the late 1950s, most South Koreans hailed it as the first step to developing their own nuclear bomb. This paper will analyze how and why the savior image of the nuclear bomb originated and spread in Korea during the 1950s.
1945年8月，两颗原子弹投在了广岛和长崎，这意外地使朝鲜从长达35年的日本占领中获得了解放。因此，从一开始，朝鲜人就对原子弹和核能有着非常良好和积极的印象。在朝鲜战争期间，当美国公开提及可能对朝鲜和中国军队使用原子弹时，原子弹作为“救世主”的形象得到了强化。1953年7月朝鲜战争结束后，韩国人强烈支持发展原子弹以威慑朝鲜的再次入侵。20世纪50年代末，当美国政府向韩国提供一座研究用核反应堆时，大多数韩国人将其欢呼为发展本国原子弹的第一步。本文将分析20世纪50年代原子弹的救世主形象是如何以及为何在韩国产生并传播开来的。
