People of the Revolution and the USSR
- John Foster Dulles John Foster Dulles An American diplomat who drove the Cold War through alliance-building
- George Pratt Shultz George Shultz The Secretary of State who pushed Reagan toward dialogue with Gorbachev and helped end the Cold War
- Henry Alfred Kissinger Henry Alfred Kissinger The architect of détente who used 'linkage' to build the first framework for superpower arms control, the face of American realism
- James Baker James Baker The pragmatic diplomat who engineered the Cold War's final transition