UN General Assembly
1959

86. Unfortunately, it has so far proved impossible to fully harvest the benefits one could reasonably expect from such discoveries, notwithstanding the earnest desire of peoples and Governments. This is the unhappy price which the future of humanity is paying for the dangerous political and military situation which has been cur shadow for several years. The peoples of the earth today may appear, to the observer from another planet, somewhat like acrobats hanging on to the brim of a volcano, listening to its permanent rumblings and being occasionally jolted by its sporadic eruptions. Again, as he who risks the abrupt undoing of years of training when making a false step on the high wire, the human race risks complete obliteration of itself and of the civilization which it built slowly and painfully in the course of the centuries. The ghastly truth is that either man proves himself capable of controlling the destructive forces he has created or else, if he continues to toy with the atomic and thermo-nuclear forces, he is headed for self-annihilation. If the thinking man is unable to live in peace with himself, he cannot expect that the new powers he has created will serve him peacefully as they should.