UN General Assembly
1951

118. At the same time as Mr. Acheson advocates a census and inventory of all armaments, including atomic weapons, with the professed objective of achieving subsequent disarmament on the basis of the three-Power proposals, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Bradley, speaks of the necessity for a considerable further increase in the armaments of the United States of America. Speaking on 9 November of this year at the American Petroleum Institute, Bradley stated that the American Chiefs of Staff had decided that it was essential for the United States to make a considerable increase in its air forces and that the effort in that direction should be undertaken immediately. 119. An important place in this atomic general’s speech was occupied by the question of using atomic weapons for aggressive purposes, and Ire declared that aviation continued to be the best method for the use of atomic power on the field of battle and in the heart of the territory of any large country.