UN General Assembly
1968

110. Of course, to limit the arms build-up of the super-Powers through mutual agreement between themselves is a political gesture which may help to promote détente. Of course, to prevent the dissemination of nuclear weapons is a useful goal. But the real problem lies elsewhere, as in the last analysis each of us well knows. To perpetuate the privilege of the Powers which possess large numbers of weapons and their many types of delivery vehicles, is to resign ourselves, by setting up a monopoly at the expense of the independence of the other nations, to a precarious balance which can be upset at any moment.