UN General Assembly
1959

64. We are in favour of genuine disarmament under control, but we are against control without disarmament. The opponents of disarmament can easily make any measure conditional upon demands for control which are of such a nature that, in the circumstances of a universal arms race, other States cannot meet them. It is plain that even those States which, for one reason or another, press such far-reaching demands for control would themselves have no inclination to accept those demands in practice if it came to the point of implementing them. 65. Other difficulties also arise. So long as disarmament is conceived of as merely partial, and it is assumed that after the conclusion of a disarmament agreement some sorts of armament will be retained, States would be left with the physical capacity for an attack. There would always be the fear that, with the types of arms and armed forces remaining, it would still be possible to launch an attack. Awareness that that possibility would persist has impeded the disarmament negotiations considerably.