Week 7 Prompt Post: Contemplating Controversy

  I must admit that this week’s prompt topic is so hard for me due to the specificity of my major which is mechanical engineering. As we know, mechanical engineer is rigorous work so that this major requires every mechanical engineer has rigorous thinking power because everything that mechanical engineers design or build relate to society’s secure and human’s life, so even though I spend hours on internet and MSU libraries, I can not find single controversy for my field which makes me very sad. I keep searching on bloggers, and finally I find one mechanical engineer blogsport which has completing controversy, I bet that this author must be one of Prof. Sarah Gibbons’ former friends. She or he gives a controversy about nuclear weapon and the topic gives me hope to finish this week’s prompt post, thank god.
  The content below gives both side of nuclear weapon, though it relates to physical and nuclear science, but they are part of mechanical engineering, so I think it is suitable for this week’s prompt post and I DO NOT have my opinion with the controversy. And the controversy is that should a country spend money on developing nuclear weapons during peacetime?
  From the survey of nuclearfiles.org, most voters say that U.S government spend too much on nuclear weapons and strong majority republicans are opposed to spend taxes on developing nuclear weapons. Moreover, Americans are ready to eliminate all nuclear weapons. In America, the attitude that people towards to nuclear weapons is to cancel it at all.
   The controversy is between Chinese and Americans. China’s government concentrates on developing nuclear weapons and our people support it. In China, the priority thing is secure. And the leader of China and fellow people think that only developing nuclear weapons can bring peace, as the nuclear weapons protected new born China after world war, people in China believe in it without doubts.

 

 

CITATION

1. Chris , Bartoluzzi . "Contemplating Controversy ." Displinary literacies Porforlio. Google Blogger, 19 04 2013. Web. 27 Feb. 2014. http://bartomsu.blogspot.com/.

2. "U.S. Public Opinion Poll on Nuclear Weapons." . NuclearFiles, Web. 27 Feb. 2014. http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/library/opinion-polls/nuclear-weapons/public-opinion-poll-on-nuclear-weapons.html.

3. 秋月, 冷如刀. "核武器震慑带来必然是和平，中国应该大力发展威胁美国本土核弹！." Sina. (2009): n. page. Web. 27 Feb. 2014. http://club.mil.news.sina.com.cn/thread-160101-1-1.html.