UN General Assembly
1961

121. The hypocrisy of the cry raised in Western capitals about the harmful effects of nuclear tests on human health is obviously a mile off. It is amazing that they made that "discovery" there precisely after the decision to conduct nuclear weapons tests had been taken by the Soviet Union. Where were they before, these people who are now carried away by this studied compassion for human beings? Why were they not concerned about the pollution of the atmosphere and the poisoning of surface water by radio-active deposits, when for a period of several years explosions of American and British nuclear bombs were resounding over the expanses of the Pacific Ocean and in the United States itself? After all, the Western Powers have detonated many more nuclear explosions, all told, than the Soviet Union has.