https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/m...2023-s85vdrtzs
Sci-fi writers drafted by MoD to imagine Third World War
The year is 2040. A crowd has gathered in Soho to watch the prime minister — a man named Ibrahim Bracknell — deliver a speech. Suddenly the skies turn black, as a swarm of killer robots descends on innocent bystanders.
It may sound like the beginning of a film but the scene comes from a taxpayer-funded short story commissioned by the Ministry of Defence (MoD)…..