UN General Assembly
1962

We want somebody to go and look." This could be done on the basis of every suspicious event being investigated, which is the implication of the proposals being forwarded by the eight neutral nations, or it could be done on the basis of a quota only of such events chosen by each side, which is the proposal put forward by the United States and the United Kingdom. I do hope that the Soviet Union will be willing to concede this amount of inspection — a very small amount of inspection — in order to achieve a test ban. But I should like to put forward the second option, which has been given to the Soviet Union. It is this: that there should immediately be a ban on tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under the sea, with no conditions and no inspection. The object of that proposal, put forward by the United States and ourselves, is to save the world from fall-out.