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Is War Human?

This poem poses a fundamental question: Can war truly be called human? Through reflections on nuclear weapons and the military use of artificial intelligence, it exposes the deception of nuclear deterrence, the killing of innocent civilians, and the emergence of autonomous lethal weapons systems (LAWS). As warfare becomes increasingly detached from human ethics and conscience, technological progress appears to accelerate the loss of humanity itself. The poem sounds a profound warning about this unsettling future.

“Is War Human?”

They threaten to drop nuclear bombs.
The threatened nation imagines Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It recalls the Chernobyl disaster.
It remembers the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
People continue to live in fear
of radioactive contamination
that scars the earth for generations.
Its effects do not remain local;
they linger in both environment and human bodies.

That is why,
even when nations possess nuclear weapons,
they cannot truly use them.
To use them
is to invite retaliation
and destruction upon oneself.
And so more weapons are produced and stockpiled
only to restrain one another.
Powerful nations assert themselves
by preventing weaker nations from developing them by force.
Those who secretly possess them
refuse to reveal the truth.
Thus is maintained
the delicate balance of nuclear deterrence.
What a profoundly human—
and malicious—ethic this is.

The development of AI
continues to advance at astonishing speed.
When the United States attacked a school in Iraq,
innocent children were killed.
The excuse was that outdated intelligence
had identified it as a military facility.
What a hollow lie.
In an age when AI has elevated information warfare,
it is unthinkable
that attacks are decided by obsolete systems alone.
Targets are selected deliberately,
and someone presses the switch.
Without hesitation,
under orders,
a soldier obeys.
How could guilt survive there?
War abandons what it means to be human.

The military use of AI
will make attacks ever more precise and efficient.
To soldiers operating as if in a game,
the killing of enemy troops
feels unreal.
Ethics vanish;
even children can be killed without hesitation.
This is symbolized
by the cruel destruction and slaughter
in Palestine.

Soon AI itself
may attack without direct human command.
The age of
Autonomous Lethal Weapons Systems—LAWS—
is approaching.
Research toward practical deployment
is surely already underway.
Boundless dehumanization
will intensify the fierce competition
to develop weapons of war.
Vast sums of money
and brilliant human minds
will be consumed
by economic monsters.

War casts aside ethics,
becomes inhuman,
and continues to seek annihilation.
Is this merely science fiction,
foretelling a near future
ruled by LAWS?
Even the means to control them
may have to be entrusted
to AI itself.

Written on May 10, 2026. The footsteps of an unsettling age can already be heard.

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