UN General Assembly
1958

80. I do not of course mean to imply, as I shall emphasize later in this speech, that within that basic condition of nuclear stalemate it is not possible for the great Powers to make useful agreements tending to limit competition in nuclear armament. Indeed, we all welcome with deep thankfulness the progress that has recently been made towards agreement on suspension of nuclear tests, and we hope that similar progress can also be made before long or. supervised limitation of future production. But even so, we shall have to live for many years in the presence of enormous destructive potentiality. The ultimate objective of those who work for peace is, of course, to get rid of that potentiality by mutual consent. But the immediate objective must be to render its use less likely.