UN General Assembly
1985

This inevitably leads to an alternating escalation of their arms race. In order to change the long-standing situation in the arms race, in which each side tries to outdo the other, it is imperative for the two nuclear Powers that possess 95 per cent of the world's nuclear weapons earnestly to consider taking the lead in drastically reducing their nuclear arsenals. They will still have enough left to destroy each other even if their nuclear arsenals are cut by half, let alone by a quarter. It must be pointed out that the arms race between the super-Powers has been extended from land, sea and air to outer space. If this trend of large-scale qualitative escalation is allowed to continue unchecked, it is bound to increase the danger of war and to pose a grave threat to world peace.