A new Russian leader emerges, and the republics seek independence. As the Soviet Union dissolves, several powers sign a landmark treaty on nuclear arms.
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
The End of History
season 1 episode 7
episode aired on march 2024
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- Self - Author, Not One Inch
- Self - National Security Council, European and Russian Affairs 2017 - 2019
- Self - National Security Council, Soviet and Eastern European Affairs 1989 - 1991
- Self - U.S. Ambassador to Russia 2012 - 2014
- Self - Director of Lithuanian National Television 1990 - 1992
- Self - Lithuanian Activist
- Self - Interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev
- Self - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania
- Self - Author, Atoms & Ashes
- Self - Editor, The New Yorker
- Self - U.K. Ambassador to Russia 2000 - 2004
- Self - Co-Founder, Nuclear Threat Initiative
- Self - U.S. Secretary of Defense 2006 - 2001
- Self - Operations Officer, Central Intelligence Agency 1980 - 2005
- Self - U.S. Foreign Service Officer 1985 - 1996
- Self - President of the United States 1989 - 1993
- Self - U.S. Defense Secretary 1989 - 1993
- Self - Founder of the Cheka, Precursor to the KGB
- Self - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State 1989 - 1992
- Self - Chemical-Nuclear Engineer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Self - Leader of the Soviet Union 1985 - 1991
- Self - Wife of Mikhail Gorbachev
- Self - Chancellor of West Germany 1982 - 1990
- Self - Deputy Director, Academy of Natural Sciences U.S.S.R.
- Self - Head of the KGB 1988 - 1991
- Self - U.S. Senator, Indiana 1977 - 2013
- Self - Factory Director, UST'-Kamenogorsk 1989 - 1994
- Self - President of Russia
- Self - President of Russia 1991 - 1999
- Vladimir Putin