UN General Assembly
1955

50. A great deal has already been said about the stark and simple choice which confronts the United Nations in the nuclear age. If the present race in armaments, in the manufacture and stockpiling of atomic and thermonuclear weapons, continues unchecked, we may well pass the point of no return, to a war of annihilation in which will perish man and all his works. There will be no victor and no vanquished, no consummation of the ends of national greatness, gain or power. 51. The dawn of the nuclear age demands a radical reorientation of our outlook and a transvaluation of national and international values if good is to triumph over evil and life over death. The disarmament question must, therefore, be given the foremost priority by the Powers represented on the Sub-Committee of the Disarmament Commission.