I believe we're in cold warto. As i argue in the book, i think we have significant advantages. The crucial thing is we must not become our enemy in the course of waging this war. It's a nasty world out there, and the us can't afford to say that it's only going to be best friends with squeaky clean democracies in such a world. We shouldn't delude ourselves about what will be necessary to wind cold wato. I do want to est that the biggest disaster we face in the near term is actually totalitarianism. And we've already created the technological means for a surveillance state in this country. In order to prevent disastrous technologies from running their own