Post #6-Research Topic #1

I thought of a very good topic to cover on my research paper over the last couple of days. I wanted to do something that I was interested in, yet have the topic be debatable and understandable. I wrote a "research paper" in my senior year of high school that was about a topic that I was interested in, but it wasn't debatable and it was fairly technical. After that prideful mistake I made in AP English last spring, I am determined to find a debatable, understandable topic that I am interested in.
My topic is going to be the ethics of using "salting agents" in nuclear weapons. A "salting agent" is a nuclide in the heart of a nuclear weapon that is designed to become very radioactive upon aborption of neutrons. Salting agents are deliberately added to nuclear weapons to increase the radioactivity of the fallout. The question is is it really necessary to increase the radioactivity of the fallout after the blast?



Comments:
That sounds like a very interesting topic! I've always liked blowing things up and learning how different things react. It might not be a good idea for me to read your paper... but I'd love to read it anyway! Good luck on the research! I guess as a suggestion I'd say look at all the points of view on nuclear fallout and what people determine is ethically correct.

-Charles