Threat level is a term used by governments to indicate the state of preparedness required by government servants with regard to threats to the state:
Famous quotes containing the words threat and/or level:
“The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.”
—Eugene J. McCarthy (b. 1916)
“Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.”
—Thomas Mann (18751955)