UN General Assembly
1959

48. The effort to maintain the military equilibrium stimulates the arms race, since each nation, and especially the great Powers, press on with their armaments programmes for fear of seeing the balance disrupted at their expense. However, if, in order to maintain the forces necessary to a certain degree of security, the nations continue to arm, it is logically possible to maintain this same balance by a common agreement either to avoid increasing the potential of the respective war arsenals, or even to lower the existing level of armaments. This means balanced disarmament.