UN General Assembly
1978

39. Of all the weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons are still the most formidable. Each of the super-Powers has a force of these weapons sufficient to destroy the other many times over. There is no defence, no shield, against nuclear weapons. Damage from the combined effects of the nuclear blasts, fall-out and firestorms that would result from a full nuclear exchange would destroy all life not only in the warring nations but in the rest of the world as well. Our primary aim, therefore, should be cessation, of nuclear-weapon tests in all atmospheres, banning production of nuclear weapons and destroying their stockpiles.