They will have to address the actual state of the world and the reality that, in important ways, the American people are less safe today than they were eight years ago.

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This is not a healthy state of affairs, and it is one that science must address, both by engaging more with the wider world and by pursuing the globalisation of science more vigorously than ever.

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