Academic Paper Subject

There were a lot of choices to make for the subject of the Academic Paper, deciding to do something based on the topic of engineering was a good start for the researcher, but as you may or may not know there are a wide range of sub categories of engineering. Therefore the decision was made to do something to do with the defence industry, as the company that he works for is a defence based company. This lead to the choice of the Trident project and the nuclear threat to the UK; This is a wide subject choice on its own, however it is a very controversial choice and one that will raise a lot of reading material and a good response from research. 

(P.S. I had an attempt at writing in the 3rd person, not as easy as it sounds! Maybe you could give me some comments if I am on the right track?)