UN General Assembly
1962

53. But the most immediate problem is, in my Government's view the need to arrive at an early agreement on a nuclear test ban. The recent report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation [A/5216] has shed more light on the sinister radiation hazards involved in these tests. It is desirable from every point of view that these tests should be stopped as soon as possible in order to eliminate the biological and genetic risks from fall-out, in order to prevent wider dissemination of nuclear weapons and in order to halt the nuclear arms race.