Now that I’ve won my suit under the Freedom of Information Act, I am at liberty to reveal for the first time a curious episode in my life that may be of interest not only to those engaged in research in the philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence and neuros- cience'but also to the general public. Several years ago Iwas approached by Pentagon officials who asked me to volunteer for a highly dangerous and secret mission. In collaboration with NASA and Howard Hughes, the Department of Defense was spending billions to develop a Supersonic Tunneling Underground Device, or STUD. It was supposed to tunnel through the earth’s core at great speed and deliver a specially designed atomic warhead “right up the Red’s missile silos,” as one of the Pentagon brass put it. Th= orr1"1’" *"■* thst in sn eery to?* t y cult; that brought the Pentagon to door, was that ths device Cd been i tud to recover was fiercely radioactive, in a naw way. According to monitoring inotrd- meats, semething about the patjrg gf the 4 Clinton St. Quarterly
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NTc4NTAz