UN General Assembly
1957

55. Because of the obvious danger implicit in the continued existence of such groups, the concept of a defensive alliance has lost much of its old force and so should now be superseded by an effective system of collective security. The nations are running a great risk: the policy of which these blocs are both an expression and an instrument may, notwithstanding all intentions to the contrary and by the working of a kind of internal logic, create a situation where war would threaten all nations with extinction. Superimposing ideological considerations on the system of blocs is bound, of course, to accentuate existing schisms.