NBC Evening News for Thursday, May 23, 2002
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(Washington: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Campbell Brown) The visit by President Bush to Russia as part of his European tour featured; details given of his warning to President Vladimir Putin concerning his nuclear ties to Iran; scenes shown of protests in Berlin during Bush's visit to Germany. [BUSH - says Iraqi President Saddam Hussein "gassed his own people"; says there are no war plans on his desk.]
(Washington: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Andrea Mitchell) Concerns about the threat of terrorists exploding a nuclear bomb in a major American city examined; scenes shown from movie "The Sum Of All Fears". ["New York Times" magazine Bill KELLER - explains what terrorists need to make a nuclear bomb; describes the immediate death toll if a bomb went off in Times Square.] [Nuclear scientist David ALBRIGHT - says insiders could sell needed materials to the enemy.] [Nuclear Threat Initiative Sam NUNN - says nuclear material is harder to intercept the closer it gets to the United States.]
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