Before the Point of No Return: An Exchange of Views on the Cold War, the Reagan Doctrine, and What Is To Come

Brief responses by 25 scholars, journalists and scientists from across the political spectrum to questions about the future course or termination of the cold war. None speak with certainty and few are optimistic. Tom Wicker, for example, says the issue is whether the United States will declare the western hemisphere "off-limits to Communism" no matter what must be done to stop it.