UN General Assembly
1952

94. If the United States is really prepared to refrain from the use of atomic bombs or any other kinds of bombs, why does it persist year after year in rejecting the USSR proposals for the immediate and unconditional prohibition of atomic weapons? Why does it refuse even to make a statement on this subject? If the United States is really prepared to refrain from the use of chemical or bacterial weapons, why does Mr. Acheson systematically and stubbornly refuse to ratify the Geneva Protocol of 1925 on the prohibition of the use of bacterial weapons? It would appear that the United States is the only country in the world of any importance which has not ratified this 1925 Protocol on the prohibition of the use of bacterial weapons. How is it possible to believe statements that the United States will not resort to aggression with atomic bombs or ,with chemical weapons or bacterial weapons, as stated by Mr.