UN General Assembly
1963

55. If I may say so, with respect, the Soviet Union is right to take this uncompromising stand against war, and when Mr. Gromyko, when I was visiting his country a short time ago, allowed me to broadcast and to speak on television to the people of the Soviet Union, I told them that this was the key for which the world had been waiting, and indeed the only key which could open the way to genuine coexistence. Therefore I welcome it, as I do the approach to peace through negotiation, which was the theme running through the speech of Mr. Gromyko when he addressed this General Assembly on 19 September [1208th meeting]. For the plain truth is that since the nuclear bomb has been developed and perfected, war is unthinkable either as an instrument of national policy or as a means of propagating political doctrine. The more we know about nuclear weaponry —and now we know a great deal— the more certain it is that man will have to think again about his traditional habits and attitudes in respect of his relations with his neighbour.