Paul Bregman, one of the crew members of the B-29 bomber that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, could not resist the deep depression caused by his participation in the attack and hanged himself at his home in Los Angeles. just days before the 40th anniversary of the massacre. In the 21st century, unmanned aircraft, drones or guided or intelligent bombs prevent human beings, with names and surnames, from having an exact and real awareness of the evil that their bombs produce.
The missiles that killed seven aid workers in the World Central Kitchen convoy in Gaza were also fired from remotely controlled drones many kilometers away. The effect on the mood of whoever presses the button is not at all the same.
And drones remotely controlled from a distance were the ones that hit the containment structure of one of the two nuclear reactors at the Zaporizhia power plant, the largest in Europe, on Sunday. Turkish, American or Iranian drones are playing a major role in the Ukrainian war. They are increasingly faster, undetectable, with greater destruction capacity and more affordable in price. And without human piloting in front.
The only thing missing was the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to help armies better identify targets to bomb. This option exists and has been used in the war in Gaza, according to an investigation by an Israeli magazine revealed by Josep Maria Ganyet and Ramón López de Mántaras in an article published last Sunday in La Vanguardia. The best thing is that there were no bombs of any kind, but it is scary to think that military intelligence could develop explosive devices that are manned without people and that attack specific targets that have not been validated by humans either.
We are not talking about a war of robots against robots, but rather attacks directed against civilian personnel. And with the risk, as has happened at the Zaporizhia plant, that no one will want to be responsible for them later. They are drones that have no father or mother.
