UN General Assembly
1963

107. Two decades ago people thought, looking at the ruins of cities and the ashes of villages and mourning their dead relatives, that this was the limit of the calamity of war. Today everyone knows that there are weapons of which one single blast vastly exceeds the force of all the explosives used, not only during the Second World War, but throughout the history of mankind. We also know that the numbers of hydrogen and atomic bombs are no longer counted in single units and are steadily increasing. Everyone understands that now the alternative to peaceful coexistence is destructive war. This alone obliges all those who cherish the future of nations to uphold firmly the banner of the struggle for peace, determinedly rejecting attempts to attach to the concept of peaceful coexistence a meaning contrary to this great humanist idea.