UN General Assembly
1962

The urgency of reaching agreement on disarmament requires no emphasis, as any further delay in reaching such agreement might render controlling disarmament operations in stages less effective. The present trends in arms production show only too clearly that when the displacement of the nuclear arms-carrying devices becomes generalized, especially when missile bases become mobile, the control of disarmament consequently becomes extremely difficult if not. impossible. Moreover, scientific research will render cheaper the production of nuclear weapons, and the possibility of obtaining them will no longer be confined to the present nuclear Powers but to a much larger number. The nuclear Powers have, therefore, a decisive role in the disarmament negotiations, for without their agreement it would be impossible to proceed either to a liquidation of nuclear arms or to a prohibition of testing.