UN General Assembly
1950

138. In the end, the free peoples, unable to achieve the general disarmament which they desired, have had to recognize that they had no choice but also to rearm. So far as they are concerned, this is not an armaments race; it is an attempt, undertaken reluctantly but resolutely, to redress the balance in armaments which has been disturbed by others, and so to restore the chances of peace. Such is the spirit in which we have allied ourselves under the Treaty of Brussels and the North Atlantic Treaty; such is the spirit in which we have decided now to regain the military strength of which we are capable.