Jamie Metzl

And we're defenseless in responding.

The world that we know it falls apart.

We live in a world that is built on American leadership and American leadership stems from U.S.

technologies.

largely based on somebody who most people haven't heard of named Vannevar Bush, who is the former president of MIT.

He worked with FDR during the Second World War.

And he had the idea and he was the leader of efforts to build this military, industrial, academic base and investing in basic sciences and having that foundation established.

which was what allowed us to win the Second World War.

It was radar systems developed by the U.S.

and the U.K.

that made it possible for the U.K.

to survive the Battle of Britain.

And had Britain been defeated by the Nazis early on, we wouldn't have had D-Day.

We wouldn't have had all these other things.

The Manhattan Project, these were all major events

technological achievements.

And because of that leadership, the United States was in the position to lay the foundation for this whole world that sadly we are now taking the pickaxe to.

But this whole world built on U.S.

standards and U.S.

technology and U.S.