UN General Assembly
1958

68. Another hopeful sign in these troubled times is the fact that, albeit cautiously, steps are being taken in the field of disarmament to isolate certain problems from political controversies and to treat them purely from a scientific angle. We trust that the encouraging results at Geneva this summer of the Conference of Experts to Study the Possibility of Detecting Violations of a Possible Agreement on the Suspension of Nuclear Tests will bear further fruit at the Geneva talks scheduled for the end of October of this year. We also would like to see — as already suggested by the Secretary-General — a further extension of this objective, non-political approach to other problems relating to disarmament and International security. Some aspects of the question of the peaceful t.se of outer space might possibly be dealt with in this manner.