UN General Assembly
1961

71. The major military Powers are assuming alarmingly grave responsibilities for the future of mankind, for increasingly they are holding the world hostage to their will. Yet, while recognizing the special position of these Powers in any efforts towards achieving a safer world to live in, we recognize at the same time that the dangers resulting from their failure to reach agreement will affect all nations alike, be they big or small, guilty or innocent, aggressor or victim. We have now come to a point in history where peace or war is indivisible. By the same token the responsibility of maintaining peace and avoiding war has also become indivisible. All nations big and small have the same stake and therefore the same responsibility. In short, we are all part of the enormous struggle of humanity itself to avert its own self-destruction.