Listen in to a debate, regarding Germany's admission into Nato, as featured on the weekly CNN program "Postscript" -- which accompanies the COLD WAR series.

CNN World Affairs Correspondent, Ralph Begleiter, joined by Russian historian Valdislav Zubok, Czech-born scholar Vojtech Mastny and American researcher Thomas Blanton consider the subtext of curbing West Germany's ambitions, while allowing it into the western military alliance.

Vojtech Mastny is a Cold War scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington. Born in Prague, he has also taught at Boston University, the University of Bonn, The U.S. Naval War College, and the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, among other academic institutions.

Thomas Blanton is the executive director for the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C. The NSA is a non-governmental research institute providing information from U.S. government and official archives for scholars, journalists, members of Congress, lobbyists and others. Their research teases out documents still classified, to tive a complete picture of what really happened.

Dr. Vladislav Zubok is one of the leading historians of the Soviet side of the Cold War and the author of "Inside the Kremlin's Cold War." He has studied extensively in Soviet and American archives, and has taught classes on the Cold War at Amherst College, Ohio University in Athens and Stamford University. In 1993, Zubok was employed by the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington, D.C., and since then has worked at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo and is now a fellow at the National Security Archive in Washington.