Zbigniew was a Polish–American diplomat, political activist, academician, and writer, who served as the US National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter (1977–1981). He also played a prominent role in the negotiation of the ‘Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II’ nuclear weapons treaty. His tenure saw the efforts of the US in sustaining the ‘Shah of Iran’ and the arming of the “mujahideen” in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He was also the foreign policy advisor to John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson. He was involved in the normalization of relationships between the US and People’s Republic of China, the Middle-Eastern success (with the Camp David Records), the ‘Panama Canal Treaties,’ and the strengthening of military and international relations of the US. He was also a professor at ‘Harvard’ and ‘Columbia’ universities. He had written books such as ‘The Grand Failure: The Birth and Death of Communism in the Twentieth Century’ (1989) and ‘Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power’ (2012). He also appeared on TV shows such as ‘The News Hour with Jim Lehrer’ and ‘This Week with Christiane Amanpour.’ He died on May 26, 2017, in Virginia.