UN General Assembly
1957

63. What are the reasons for the opposition of the United States to a settlement of the disarmament problem and, in particular, to the discontinuance of the testing of nuclear weapons? They may be found in the fact that the American monopolists are prepared to sacrifice hundreds of millions of human lives in order to receive huge profits which, according to Congressman George Mahon, a member of the United States House of Representatives, are sky-rocketing. 64. According to the newspaper Daily Mirror of 24 September 1957, President Eisenhower told the National Security Council that the United States was maintaining "the most powerful military establishment in our peacetime history". 65. Profits earned by American corporations increased from $23,500 million in 1946 to $43,600 million in 1956. The well-informed Magazine of Wall Street referred to 1955 and 1956 as the "golden years" of business. That is why the American monopolists are making every effort to maintain the existing international tension and to prevent a settlement of the disarmament problem.