UN General Assembly
1950

118. It may be supposed that in the past the greatest obstacle to an agreement on the prohibition of the atomic weapon and the institution of strict international control was the delusion entertained by one great Power that it had the monopoly of atomic energy. But this delusion is contradicted by the facts. Atomic energy is not the monopoly of a single Power. Hence all the peoples throughout the world are equally concerned that the atomic weapon should be prohibited. A great responsibility lies on this fifth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, The Czechoslovak delegation considers that it should not deceive the hopes of hundreds of millions of men of goodwill and that it should be able to contribute by decisive action to the liberation of the peoples from the fear engendered by the threat of an atomic war.