UN General Assembly
1957

70. The Western countries on the Sub-Committee of the Disarmament Commission have said that suspension of tests should be linked with a cessation of the production of fissile material for weapons purposes. Our reasoning is as follows. Suspension of tests by itself is not disarmament at all. It does nothing to reduce armaments. It does nothing to prevent countries which have already tested weapons from piling up more weapons and more fissile material for weapons purposes. It does not prevent countries which have not yet made tests from also manufacturing fissile materials for weapons purposes, or indeed the weapons themselves. The suspension of tests by itself does nothing to stop the arms race. It does not prevent further countries from emerging as possessors of nuclear weapons.