UN General Assembly
1963

87. The process of decolonization has had a rather specific effect upon the life of this Organization, especially with respect to its approach to the problems of disarmament. What is contained in the partial nuclear test ban treaty, in connexion with the proposal for general and complete disarmament under strict international control, has its own history in the series of sessions of the General Assembly. The road has been long and sometimes rather rough. The records show that there have been meetings during which the representative of an atomic Power even ridiculed any idea of the harmfulness of radio-active fall-out resulting from nuclear experiments. It is also on the record that a host of arguments were brought up against general and complete disarmament of any sort, and some delegates went out of their way to prove that wars were organic parts of human nature.