雅思作文谈核能 IELTS English Essay

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The threat of nuclear weapons maintains world peace. Nuclear power provides cheap and clean energy. The benefits outweigh the disadvantages. Do you agree or disagree?


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The nuclear science plays a double role as if in fiction. It can provide cheap and clean energy in peace, but it also mass-destroy human lives in war. Nuclear power would be a Dr. Jackyl. In contrast, nuclear weapons could be no other than Mr. Hyde. The two personalities are, of course, one and the same. The former is our hope, and the latter our fear.

Even peace is at hand, the shadow of a nuclear conflict seems only too real. Actually, the sense of doom in us today is not a fear of nuclear power. It is a fear of war. Nuclear weapons have the mechanism of war by threatening to kill more people more secretly and more horribly than those of the past. Hiroshima 1945 is vivid memory. The situation may have changed, however. Now more countries possess nuclear-bomb technology. Because there is no way to outlaw war, the only choice for a nation is to go nuclear, if it can. And here, I believe, lies a paradox. The nuclear weapons hidden in stock somewhere serve to maintain world peace by theory of counter-attack. In other words, it is Mr. Hyde vs. Mr. Hyde.

Psychologically, it is more comforting to hope that nuclear power, or Dr. Jackyl under disguise, to be around. At a time when the world is in keen need of energy to meet its rising demand, nuclear power plants should be an ideal solution. Moreover, it seems to me, other forms of generating electricity are facing limits. There is no turning back.

After all, nuclear know-how is not warlike. Rather, it is a by-product of a warlike society. The nuclear science has merely provided the means, for good or for bad, for Jackyl or Hyde. The world must seize it for good. For peace, I hope.