UN General Assembly
1954

16. The personality of the State, with its historical and cultural physiognomy, its full political sovereignty and free economic structure, must today, as yesterday, be respected and not touched. Respect for the personality of each State is the essence of the international order. This principle cannot be attenuated or modified, but just for that reason its application at the present time requires such international regulations of nuclear energy as will ensure the life of every State and, reciprocally, the life of every State which might use such weapons. The international world today therefore inescapably requires international regulation of a weapon on which hangs the life of States and the free development of their culture.