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With Respect

President Mikhail Gorbachev
(b. 1931 — d. 2022)
Former President of the Soviet Union, 1990 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Amb. Jayantha Dhanapala
(b. 1938 — d. 2023)
Former UN Under-Secretary General for Disarmament Affairs.

Sir Joseph Rotblat
(b. 1908 — d. 2005)
Physicist who left the Manhattan Project on grounds of conscience.
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