UN General Assembly
1957

6. But today the situation is different; today there are many more reasons for fearing the end of the world than there were in the year 1,000. Fearful inventions, the hitherto unforeseen disintegration of matter, can destroy the essential elements of life unless the moral sense of mankind prevents it. The progress of science has brought great help for our ills and has given us wonders of relief from pain; and man's desire to know and to create awakens many of his noblest qualities. But it has also brought about the diabolical apparition of technical means capable of annihilation, of destruction, beyond all imaginable limits.