BUNNI: Moving on:
Human immortality was now tied to an application of very powerful weapons technology.
BUNNI: The military research agency in control of the project did the only logical thing.
BREYA: Oh. Let me guess...
...and I'm going to go with irony here: they kept it a secret "in order to save lives."
BUNNI: Correct.
Also, they deployed it so they could kill people.