UN General Assembly
1954

12. We meet once more in the shadow of the hydrogen bomb, a shadow which grows in size with every month that passes. Man has at last mastered the secret of his own extinction. This is the most significant development in the entire history of mankind and one which calls for a new set of values and a new way of thinking. Throughout the ages, war has been abhorred, but nevertheless it has occurred with sickening regularity. Out of this has developed the feeling that war, despite all its horrors, is inevitable. The hydrogen bomb serves notice on mankind that it must banish all such thinking. Not only must mankind cease to think of war as inevitable, but it must be seized constantly with one overriding determination — the determination that there shall be no more war, big or small, limited or otherwise. The supreme need of the hour is to think straight, and man finds it difficult to think straight when the world is beset even with small or limited wars. We have heard before of wars to end all war. But the next one will end all war, and with it the human race.