UN General Assembly
1968

34. Consequently, we can only express our regret that, eight years after the adoption of the Declaration and notwithstanding the irreversible trend of events since the 1950’s, some Powers persist in preserving anachronistic systems which history has already condemned. As a matter of fact, so far as some Member States are concerned, that dogged adherence to outmodel ways of thinking is not confined to their attitude on decolonization. Their concept of security is also based on the realities of former times which are as foreign to a world that has been reshaped and remodelled by the nuclear factor as the Middle Ages were to the nineteenth century industrial revolution. Is it not an anomaly and even an error to conceive of the defence of one’s country’s and of peace from the standpoint of nuclear superiority when we know — all too well — that should a conflagration occur there will be neither victors nor vanquished, let alone witnesses?