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Does the law concerning death threats apply to people, or countries, who treaten to nuke a city?

Asked by RedDeerGuy1 (24986points) February 7th, 2024

Or to deploy a doomsday device?

Is it 9 billion counts of felony uttering threats?

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I know that the US has laws governing threatening the use (or using) weapons of mass destruction. Canada might or might not, but then, not many people live in Canada.

For starters: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2332a#:~:text=Any%20national%20of%20the%20United,for%20any%20term%20of%20years

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