UN General Assembly
1961

10. Mankind is looking on in stunned dismay while, instead of progress, being made in the talks for banning nuclear weapons and for ending atom bomb tests for all time, the disarmament negotiations reach a deadlock and one of the great Powers responsible for the maintenance of peace without warning suddenly decides — and whatever the reasons adduced this is obviously iniquitous — to renew the testing of nuclear weapons of the most destructive kind. 11. Not only has this action served to increase the danger of a world holocaust whereby civilization would be wiped out but, in the immediate present, it is of itself helping to weaken the chances of survival of the human race by daily increasing the contamination of the earth's atmosphere with harmful radiation which, according to scientists, is injurious to man and to all living creatures on earth.