UN General Assembly
1963

A fact that has emerged most clearly from the general debate Is man's fear of war —that is, a war which will involve the world in a thermo-nuclear holocaust from which no one on this earth, not even succeeding generations, will escape. 2. A number of speakers have made it clear that mankind cannot continue to live, with any sense of tranquillity, under this ever-present dread of impending disaster. 3. Speakers have, almost without exception, acclaimed the test ban treaty as a possible breakthrough, however limited, in at least one aspect of the nuclear threat. Some have welcomed the direct means of communication and contact between the leaders of the two major nuclear Powers. In both these developments they endeavour to see some glimmer of hope of a less dangerous, and therefore a more fruitful, form of international life.