UN General Assembly
1957

As long as that struggle continues, disarmament talks can be little more than a façade, concealing the real trend that is taking place - a trend not towards peace but towards war. That kind of disarmament discussion, the illusory kind, so far from being a preparation for peace, is in itself an actual threat to the peace. It is a threat because it gives the peoples of the world the false idea that they are safe, whereas in reality we are all in deadly and imminent danger. If we are to save ourselves from that danger we need to make great efforts and great sacrifices. To brace ourselves for those efforts and sacrifices we need to be clearly conscious of our mortal danger. Talks that tend to obscure that saving consciousness may have fatal results. Therefore, I wish to urge on the Assembly the need for a much more radical approach to disarmament: the need to lay the political foundations of peace.