UN General Assembly
1962

96. From an acknowledgement of the admissibility of a preventive war it is only a step to actual aggression. The leaders of the United States Government understand that their preparations for a preventive blow against the Soviet Union are condemned by all honourable people throughout the world. That is precisely why the United States Secretary of Defense, Mr. McNamara, in his statement at the University of Michigan on 16. June 1962, hypocritically called for the drafting of a new code for the conduct of nuclear war. He proposes that agreement should be reached on the use of nuclear weapons only against important military objectives. But is it not clear that McNamara's proposals are completely absurd? These proposals by atomic madmen, which divert the efforts of mankind from a fundamental solution of the question of war and from general and complete disarmament are designed to prepare people's minds for the unleashing of atomic war, for death in the flames of a military conflagration.