UN General Assembly
1953

49. Apart from the direct destructive effect of atomic bombs — and more so of hydrogen bombs — the poisoning effect on the world’s atmosphere of the explosion of these weapons must be taken into account. It might well be that all the population of very large areas of the world would be killed by atmospheric poisoning, by the explosion of any considerable number of these dreadful weapons. 50. Lenin is credited with having said: “It would not matter a jot if three-quarters of the human race were destroyed. The important thing is that the surviving quarter should be communist.” A more dreadful thing could not be said.