UN General Assembly
1962

13. We are told that nuclear testing is bound up with the cold war and the arms race. The aim of nuclear tests is apparently both to strengthen the offensive capacity of the great Powers and to provide a mutual deterrent. For the rest of the world such arguments have no moral, political or strategic justification. The rest of the world is horrified by them. Apart from the contamination and other dangers inherent in such tests, they increase tension in international relations and kill hopes of disarmament. Not even the scientists and experts are at present able to assess the harmful effects of nuclear tests on climatic variations, on agricultural production and on human beings themselves. 14. We therefore firmly support the suspension of nuclear weapons tests and the conclusion of a treaty on the subject, or at least an agreement on a moratorium which will reassure the anxious world.