UN General Assembly
1962

60. Policy-making officials in the United States, the United Kingdom and other Western countries can often be heard saying that the best guarantee against a new war is the "balance of fear", Means of destruction and annihilation have become so powerful, argue the proponents, of this view, that no State will run the risk of , starting a nuclear war since it will inevitably sustain a retaliatory nuclear blow. And since each side realizes this, the fear of retribution should restrain it from beginning to resort to the language of arms. And therefore, we are told, the higher the mountains of arms that are piled up, and the more destructive and murderous those arms become, the better it will be, because the greater will be the fear. 61. In other words, in the view of the advocates-of this dangerous and aggressive doctrine, which in some NATO countries has been elevated to the status of a Government policy, the supreme expression of a love of peace is general and complete ... armament, a frenzied orgy of arming.