UN General Assembly
1958

14. I have already pointed out that the Soviet Union, actuated by its concern for peace and the fate of future generations, ended the testing of atomic and hydrogen weapons on 31 March 1958, on a unilateral basis. Similar steps have not been taken by the United States and Britain. The Governments of the United States and Great Britain are avoiding the immediate cessation of nuclear tests by looking for all possible loop-holes and producing all sorts of reservations and preliminary conditions. 15. The Soviet Union made a considerable unilateral reduction in its armed forces. Everyone possessed of good will hoped that the Western Powers would follow the USSR's example, but that was not the case. The United States has even halted the slight reduction which had been previously announced. Are not the American soldiers in the Near East and in the Taiwan region the very ones who could be sent back home to their families?