UN General Assembly
1954

55. In its efforts to condition the people psychologically and increase war hysteria, war propaganda in the United States uses methods which recall those employed during the period preceding the Second World War. In the New York Times of 29 April 1954, Hanson Baldwin, the newspaper’s military analyst, already wrote about the “age of the push-button and of atomic arms”. Thus, the peoples of the United States and other countries are being persuaded that war and the use of the most frightful weapons are inevitable. 56. The military propaganda in the United States leaves no one in any doubt as to who is the intended victim of the attack that is being prepared. With a cynicism which arouses disgust and justified indignation among all peace-loving peoples, the military strategists calculate exactly how many hours of flight are necessary to drop bombs on the industrial centres of the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China and the people’s democracies.