Were Central and South America "playgrounds" for the Cold War superpowers? Listen in on a debate on that subject, as featured on the weekly CNN program "Postscript" -- which accompanies the COLD WAR series.

CNN World Affairs Correspondent Ralph Begleiter, National Security Archive analyst Peter Kornbluh and regional experts Mark Falcoff and George Vickers consider whether the Cold War overemphasized what in another time would have been considered merely local conflicts.

Falcoff is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He has taught at several major U.S. universities and was senior consultant to the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America -- chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. In the mid-1980s, Falcoff was a staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Kornbluh is a senior analyst with the National Security Archive. He is currently head of the its U.S.-Cuba relations project. 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.

Vickers is executive director of the Washington Office on Latin America, a center for policy analysis and advocacy that works to secure human rights in Latin America. He has served on several election observer delegations in Central and South America, and co-directed missions monitoring the implementation of peace agreements in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala.