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A New Kind of Energy: Atomic Science in the Cold War Koreas: 1945-1958.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A New Kind of Energy: Atomic Science in the Cold War Koreas: 1945-1958./
Author:	Kramer, Derek J.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	271 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-06A.
Subject:	Science history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28713936
ISBN:	9798496545013

A New Kind of Energy: Atomic Science in the Cold War Koreas: 1945-1958.
Kramer, Derek J.

A New Kind of Energy: Atomic Science in the Cold War Koreas: 1945-1958. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 271 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This study takes up discourses on atomic science and technology in the mid-twentieth century Koreas. By doing so, it demonstrates how, well before either North or South Korea was capable of developing a domestic nuclear program, atomic science served as a discursive channel for the aspirations and apprehensions connected to decolonization. Broadly, the project examines writing on atomic technology in colonial, socialist, and liberal renditions of the Korean nation. In each of these settings, intellectuals reduced liberation and historical advancement to the capacity of the people to embrace a developmentalism built on science in general and atomic technology in particular. However, these proscribed entanglements also posited versions of science that reified Europe as the singular wellspring of the discipline, and in turn, historical progress. Rather than reduce the question of nuclear proliferation to the whims of political leadership or the contours of international exchange, this study focuses on the social and cultural dimensions of science in the nation-building process. With implications for the broader issue of global nuclear proliferation, this project is the first study to comparatively explore the sociopolitical character of atomic science in the two Koreas.This work provides a broad examination of atomic science in technology in North and South Korea through five sections. Chapter one explores science writing in post-1945 Seoul, and the colonial era roots of a belief in an apolitical and individualist science capable of creating an atomic bomb. Chapter two follows the genre in the north where Pyongyang-based science journals explored the atomic promise of a centrally planned socialist science. Chapter three analyzes the confluence of visions in the north and south on the developmentalist horizons of limitless atomic energy. A fourth chapter highlights how science influenced narratives of the past; specifically, Korean accounts of the Asia-Pacific War and the atomic bombings that coincided with its conclusion. Finally, chapter five reorients towards the future. This section considers the meaning of a postcolonial sovereignty in a world defined by the geographies of fallout and the threat of atomic war.

ISBN: 9798496545013Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144850
Science history.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Cold War history

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