QUOTES
The
fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been
actively promoting certain theories, as dangerous as they are illusory, of a "limited",
"winnable" or "protracted" nuclear war, as well as their obsession of "nuclear
superiority", make it advisable to bear always in mind that the immediate goal
of all States, as was expressly declared in the Final Document of the Special
Assembly of 1978, "is that of the elimination of the danger of a nuclear war".
If disarmament,
as I have taken the liberty to suggest, were in the future to become the decisive
criterion for the evaluation by the Nobel Committee of the activities for peace,
it would constitute, just as the Campaign which I have mentioned, another invaluable
element to convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant
up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples and
to become fully aware of the profound truth of the following conclusion which
the United Nations approved by unanimity four years ago: "Mankind is confronted
with a choice: we must halt the arms race and proceed to disarmament or face annihilation".
