UN General Assembly
1957

162. The existing stocks of atomic and hydrogen weapons are enough not only to wipe out both sides in a war but to annihilate the whole human race. What object can there be, therefore, in trying to increase further the destructive power of these weapons? It is a deadly illusion to think that minor wars with small nuclear weapons can be confined to a given region. Nations which engage in an arms race are like a man galloping at night along the edge of a cliff, between the tempest and the abyss; the only balance is that of fear, delicate and precarious. The cessation or suspension of tests, whether within the framework of disarmament or outside, would undoubtedly freeman-kind of the burden of one of its most oppressive fears. 163. Lastly, I should like to refer to the related question of the international responsibility of the State for injuries caused by test explosions. This question is at present being examined by the International Law Commission of the United Nations.