UN General Assembly
1962

148. 1 believe that all our problems are linked together by certain external forces. In the first place, we are searching for peace. No nation stands apart from that search, and we know that most inhabitants of this planet, from Washington to Moscow, do not want war. The arms race is the result of that mutual fear which was present in mankind’s most ancient rivalries. Today, however, the fear has increased from individual to world-wide proportions. The American and Soviet scientists, whom we congratulate on their astonishing discoveries, are bringing within our reach both the keys to a golden age which we would never have dared to hope for, and the dangers of mass destruction capable of. casting our dead world back to the earliest ages of matter.