6·25전쟁 당시 미국 전쟁지도부의 핵무기 인식과 핵정책 = The U.S. Leadership’s Perception and Policy of Nuclear Weapons during the Korean War

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The Korean War was the first clash between democratic and communist forces after the end of World War II. In the course of the war, the U.S.
changed its goal from the restoration of the pre-war condition to the unification of Korea to the restoration of the pre-war position and ceasefire.
In the process, the U.S. military considered the use of nuclear weapons several times. At that time, the U.S. had an overwhelming number of nuclear weapons compared to the Soviet Union, and also had a war plan that contained the nuclear attack options.
But both Truman and Eisenhower saw nuclear weapons as a limited option that could only be used in the confrontation with the Soviet Union, and ruled out the use of nuclear weapons in limited war like the Korean War because of the fear of expansion. Due to the development of tactical nuclear weapons in 1952, Eisenhower became more favorable towards the use of nuclear weapons, but using nuclear weapons in Korea considered with the assumption of the Soviet Union’s intervention never occurred as the armistice was signed.