"My generation before the time of Gorbachev and Reagan treated the idea of a nuclear-free world as a dream or utopia. Some called a world without nuclear weapons a harmful utopia, putting forward the following arguments: Russia will not be able to ensure its security, war cannot be prevented without nuclear weapons, etc. I consider these arguments dangerous and even absurd. I will be a supporter of a nuclear-free world until the end of my days," - Pavel Palazhchenko, the head of the International Department of the Gorbachev Foundation.