Cold war warriors: George Kennan, Andrei Zhdanov; Eastern Europe: Stanislaw Mitolaczyk, Edward Bones, Jan Masaryk, Milovan Djilas; the division of Germany: Lucius D. Clay, Konrad Adenauer, Walter Ulbricht; the atom bomb; scientists and spies: Robert J Oppenheimer, Klaus Fuchs; towards the brink; Berlin and Cuba: Nikita S Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, John F Kennedy.