A consortium of brains who share a vision for the realization of molecular nanotechnology...

A team of individuals bound together by an educated and healthy respect of the very real dangers posed by the attainment of nanotechnology...

A group committed to the responsible research, development and testing of the first viable self replicating assemblers/disassemblers and associated intelligent agents and supporting framework...

A cadre of leaders who are very frightened of this inevitable evolution of human understanding and its implementation, but are even more scared to death of someone careless, irresponsible, or in possession of evil designs wielding it... (which kind of sounds like bullet 2, but actually differs slightly)