UN General Assembly
1952

78. The United States, with other members of the Disarmament Commission, has sought to outline a comprehensive disarmament programme with a view to reducing the possibility and the fear of war [DC/10, DC/12, DC/15). The programme seeks not only the elimination of all major weapons of mass destruction, including atomic and bacterial weapons, but the elimination of large mass armies. The programme calls for a reduction of well over 50 per cent in the armed forces of the United States and the Soviet Union and for comparable limitation on the armed forces of all other States. The programme provides for the effective control of atomic energy to ensure its use for peaceful purposes only. It provides effective safeguards to ensure an open world with no secret armies and no secret weapons.