I can only speculate, but I'd imagine that anyone working in areas that touch on the technology that could lead to these kinds of capabilities get scooped up qu

I can only speculate, but I'd imagine that anyone working in areas that touch on the technology that could lead to these kinds of capabilities get scooped up quietly, and no one else really knows. From the outside it would look like the research was a dead end. This kind of thing has happened before.