UN General Assembly
1966

29. Further, it would not be sufficient merely to quell open conflicts, unless appropriate measures were taken to exorcize, once for all, the spectre of war threatening mankind. The Republic of Gabon, in signing the Moscow Treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons tests, wished to show that it unequivocally condemns the use and testing of those frightful weapons, which can lead only to the destruction of the human race. Our condemnation extends equally to the manufacture of all weapons of mass destruction, whether they are called “conventional” or not.