UN General Assembly
1964

123. The fact remains also that such test explosions may weaken the restraint on others, less responsible perhaps than we know France to be and, unlike France, not already having a nuclear capability, not to engage upon their own programme of nuclear weapons development. This prospect, this most alarming prospect, that it may not prove possible to hold the nuclear club to its present membership, is one, indeed, to which my delegation believes the Assembly at its present session should and will wish to pay urgent attention. My delegation, for its part, is fully prepared to join in efforts which may be initiated at this session to take constructive steps to further the objective of a non-dissemination agreement as contemplated by resolution 1665 (XVI), adopted by the Assembly in 1961 upon the proposal of Ireland.