The phrase "answer to the threat" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a response or solution to a specific danger or challenge.
Example: "The government implemented new security measures as an answer to the threat of cyber attacks."
Alternatives: "response to the threat" or "solution to the threat".
The only answer to the threat of bombing is decentralization of cities, the Professor says.
"Strangling this new technology with a procedural noose is no answer to the threat of terrorism," intoned the Heritage Foundation.
The committee recommended that "there should be some deterrent value in a display of confident assurance on our part that we have an adequate answer to the threat".
After presenting the danger, Mr. Cheney seemed to offer his answer to the threat, saying United States security rested on one thing: a well-trained military.
Octagon's answer to the threat of losing the race is to cut the circuit's race-day capacity by one third, compensating for the potential loss of income by raising the admission prices and charging a bundle for the car parks.
The answer to the threat of Islamic terrorism, he says, is to engage in nation-building "aimed at creating democratically legitimate states that would treat their citizens with dignity and respect".
This starts with a vision of American leadership that recognises that military power alone cannot be the first or only answer to the threats facing our nation.
It is the modern outcome of your brain's ancient fight-or-flight answer to the threats of the world, your brain's way of protecting you.
COOL IT The environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg trots the globe in search of economically sound answers to the threat of global warming in a documentary by Ondi Timoner ("We Live in Public").
Learning from the experience of those for whom the unthinkable has become a daily reality can help us develop and implement more effective answers to the threats in our own communities" [ 14].
