UN General Assembly
1961

157. This is a most regrettable and disheartening development. Nuclear power should be utilized solely for peaceful purposes, to enhance the prosperity and welfare of mankind. Competition in nuclear weapons can only increase the danger of another world war, total and more destructive than anything mankind has ever known. Having lost over 200,000 lives at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Seeing their fellow countrymen dying from year to year from the after-effects of radiation, the people of Japan, speaking from their Own bitter experience, cannot withhold expression? their deep concern over the question of nuclear testing. Reflecting this national sentiment the Japanese Government has protested whenever and wherever nuclear weapons tests have taken place.