UN General Assembly
1957

21. This is something of a preliminary, and certainly also incomplete, sketch of what I have called "the calculus of disarmament". If this system is true in its content and rigorous in its formulation, then many practical results may be deduced from it. I shall not here pause to work out these deductions, for that belongs more to the work of the First Committee when it examines disarmament. We shall then take part in the appraisal of the proposals put forward by the Soviet Union, by India, by Japan, by the United States, and by others in the light of the calculus we have just set forth. In this connexion, the definitions given by Mr. Lloyd [685th meeting] of the diverse areas in which there has been a narrowing down of differences appear to us to be of great importance for future deliberations on this subject.