The intelligence community is notoriously tight lipped, but when it comes to its nanotechnology wish list, of course tiny stuff that cant be detected comes top. What sort of stuff exactly? Sorry, that’s classified.
The US National Research Council, which was asked to report by the US intelligence community, released a non classified executive summary saying almost nothing you won;t already know, with only three out of its twenty pages giving any indication of what the committee was up to (the other seventeen contain lists and biographies of committee members).
Of course it could be that the were all sitting round wearing spock ears salivating at molecular assembler based weapons and the report was classified to avoid embarrassment, but the presence of George Whitesides on the committee suggests that that is unlikely to be the case.
Cue cries of “Conspiracy” from the Drexlerites, and we expect an imminent CRN report detailing how molecular nanotechnology would be much better than normal nanotechnologies for eavesdropping and should be implemented before it’s too late.