UN General Assembly
1963

81. This really peculiar example illustrates how the two thermo-nuclear Powers most competent to judge the dangers and consequences of a thermo-nuclear holocaust have made it clear that in this extraordinary situation extraordinary measures are needed, and at the same time that caution and careful circumspection are by no means less necessary at each step taken on the common road opened by common measures. 82. The most direct factor in bringing about the present relaxation in international tension is the common awareness of the two thermo-nuclear Powers that under the shadow of the dangers of thermo-nuclear war their common task is to promote international cooperation against all sorts of war dangers, cold or hot, because any cold-war tension may lead to a hot war, and any hot war, however local in character, may lead to a thermo-nuclear conflagration.