UN General Assembly
1957

42. For the Soviet people it is a point of honour to gain victories in peaceful competition with capitalist countries, including the most advanced. Who would dispute that competition in increasing production of milk, meat and butter is far more useful than competition in the production of nuclear weapons and other means of mass extermination? Nowadays military specialists try to estimate from time to time which of the two Powers, the United States or the Soviet Union, has exploded more atomic or hydrogen bombs, and the explosions of which side are equivalent to more millions of tons of TNT. This, of course, is competition of a kind, but one to which we are opposed. In its place we propose a competition in the transformation of nature, in bending its forces to the will of man and for peaceful purposes. It is precisely such a competition, not an armaments race, which should settle the argument about the advantages and drawbacks of different social systems.