UN General Assembly
1965

67. No matter how many words of condemnation, how many curses, may now be uttered concerning this weapon of mass destruction, the fact is that it has appeared, it exists. But will the present nuclear arsenals breed new ones? Will nuclear weapons gradually proliferate, as have weapons of other types? That is the question which disturbs the peoples and those statesmen who are alive to their responsibility towards them. Their anxiety is fully understandable and natural, for the risk of a war in which nuclear weapons would be used will only continue to grow, and to grow in a geometric progression, if possession of such weapons becomes wide-spread.