Threat Level

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:

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    The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, of the power and strength of a great nation.
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    Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
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