UN General Assembly
1957

36. This was obviously a lost opportunity. It is already part of history, but these historical facts can help us to understand present developments better and to form a clearer picture of the positions of various countries on the disarmament question and particularly on the discontinuance of tests of nuclear weapons. 37. Others have tried to prove that a third world war, waged with conventional weapons, would be no less destructive than a war waged with atomic and thermonuclear weapons. We agree that there should be no war at all. Yet we are surprised by an argument of this kind, because obviously its only purpose is to justify the production of atomic and nuclear weapons, to justify world war. 38. Clearly, no one could be convinced by any of the arguments presented by the representatives of the NATO countries in the Sub-Committee of the Disarmament Commission and in the present debate, arguments designed to prevent the early conclusion of a disarmament agreement, which the peoples of the entire world are anxiously awaiting.