Well, safe means they just can't go off when they're not supposed to.

So, if we have a warhead that's flying on an airplane, the airplane crashes, it can't go off.

Much of the work that protects a country begins long before anyone knows exactly when or whether it will be needed.

They told us to evacuate, but my colleagues and I refused to, even though flight 77, which ended up hitting the Pentagon, was inbound.

In public health or in biosecurity, if we do our job well, nothing happens [music], right?

Life continues as normal.

But sometimes the worst does happen.

That keeps me up at night, because we're we're playing on borrowed time.

Finding hands, seeing hands poking through roofs, trying to do our best.

Texans have prepared for us to be their response.

We are the disaster plan for them.

Texas A&M, 150