As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am briefed on a seemingly endless list of threats to our homeland.

When the Trump administration’s contest with Iran heated up, urban police departments recalibrated the danger of terrorist attacks from Iranian surrogates. North Korea aspires to threaten our cities with nuclear-tipped missiles while having a sophisticated ability to punish U.S. corporations through cyberattacks. China is relying on a wide-ranging program to train visiting scientists, businesspeople, and students to steal industrial, technological, and military secrets across the United States, all with the goal of becoming the single dominant power in the world. Russia deployed its first hypersonic missile against the U.S. while continuing to roil our politics with disinformation. Technological developments have left us vulnerable in ways most can’t even imagine, with bytes of electrons able to destroy much of modern society in the blink of an eye.