UN General Assembly
1972

24. However, to our regret, it is also the fact that a heated nuclear-armaments race is still continuing among the nuclear-weapon States. Particularly, it is most deplorable that such States, ignoring the strong objections of world public opinion, should be continuing and intensifying their nuclear tests. Although, as is well known, the question of banning nuclear-weapon tests had been the greatest issue in the post-war disarmament negotiations, no tangible result has been achieved in respect of a ban on the underground testing of nuclear weapons since 1963, when the so-called partial nuclear test-ban treaty came into being to prohibit nuclear weapon tests in environments other than under-ground. Moreover, two nuclear-weapon States continue to refuse to become parties to this treaty, and have still been carrying out nuclear tests in the atmosphere despite protests registered by other countries apprehending the destruction of the human environment.