UN General Assembly
1961

113. The need for reaching the earliest possible agreement on disarmament would not be stated completely if no reference were made to the question of the cessation of nuclear weapons tests. This is all the more necessary in that attempts have recently been made, in connexion with the Soviet Government's decision to conduct experimental nuclear explosions in the USSR, to distort the true picture and to depart from the course which really leads to a solution of this problem. 114. Many Western statesmen have spoken on this subject recently. But their statements miss the mark and avoid the real issue. There is plenty of demagogy in them, but no proper evaluation of the position and of the reasons which compelled the Soviet Union to take this decision.