UN General Assembly
1959

169. It has been said, for example, that the Soviet proposal is "unrealistic" or even "utopian". The authors of these pseudo-authoritative statements naturally have difficulty in finding any reasonable grounds for their assessments. Why is the Soviet proposal for general disarmament considered unrealistic? Has the insane stockpiling of arms, a practice which ' must sooner or later lead to war, become so natural and inevitable in the life of human society that there are people who cannot conceive of life without armies and atomic bombs? No, of course not. On the contrary, the vast majority of peoples regard armaments as a misfortune, as a dreadful calamity, and seek to be rid of them. Those who say that the Soviet proposal is "unrealistic" and "utopian" should remember the statement of Mr. Khrushchev that weapons are made by the hands of men and that the hands of men can, and will, destroy them.