UN General Assembly
1964

118. During that time, the United Nations has sponsored or endorsed all the efforts to halt the armaments race and to press on toward general and complete disarmament in a peaceful world. Its efforts were not fruitless. Agreement was reached on a direct communications link between Washington and Moscow — a step lessening the risk of war through accident or miscalculation. A treaty was signed-long urged by the General Assembly — the Treaty banning nuclear weapons tests in the atmosphere, in outer space and under water. The two States presently capable of stationing nuclear weapons in outer space expressed in the United Nations their intent to refrain from doing so, and we adopted a resolution [1884 (XVIII)] hero calling upon all other States to do likewise. In short, the efforts of the last twenty years have at last begun to arrest the vicious spiral of uncontrolled nuclear armament.