UN General Assembly
1961

83. It has been said that a reason for the resumption of tests is the fact that France conducted tests. I do not regard that as an excuse nor, I am sure, does anyone else in this hall regard that as the real reason why the Soviet Union resumed tests. And on this I can speak on behalf of Australia, which has a good record, because Australia has always taken the view that no nuclear Power should emerge beyond the three that already existed. In fact, I said in the First Committee of the General Assembly on 12 November 1959: "But we cannot think it right that a fourth country should be free to conduct a test while the nuclear Powers are under constraint".