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The article reflects the view of the author regarding the suggestion of U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater and "Life Magazine" on the Cold War against Russia and China. They recently suggested that America’s foremost national purpose should be directed to win the cold war. According to the author, it is significant that the country have a clear notion of what it is trying to carry out in the current international contest. He contends that it is not true that the goal of winning the cold war suggests that the major task at hand is for the good guys to baffle the bad guys. The realism that the Americans are strongly opposed to having the Communists take over and run the free world does not mean that they want to take over and run the communist world.

This article presents results of various opinion polls related to Cold War. In response to a question whether a veto in the Security Council of the United Nations (UN) to prevent the UN Emergency Force from going into a trouble area be removed or not, 38% people said that they would like to see the veto removed. 33% people replied in the negative, while the rest had no opinion about the matter. In response to another question, that whether the UN Emergency Force should include volunteers from large countries such as the U.S. and Russia, 52% people replied in the affirmative and 24% replied in the negative in March 1958. 46% people replied in the positive and 29% in the negative, to the same question in July 1960. On whether if to admit China as a member of the UN 11% people replied in the affirmative, while 58% replied in the negative in June 1950. The answer to the same question saw 8% replying in the affirmative and 79% people replying in negative in August 1954, while only 10% people replied in the affirmative in June 1955.

The article examines the kind of role which can be reasonably be assigned to the United Nations (UN) in the military-security-field. It questions the possible use of the UN as a military instrument for dealing with great-power aggression that refers to the possibility of the organization's serving as a defensive bastion against aggressive actions launched by or supported by the Soviet Union or Communist China. It also explores whether the UN has a significant capability of dealing military conflict between states which lie outside the alignments of the Cold War and the interest of the major Cold War antagonists.

The author reflects on the importance of the resolution of the cold war between the U.S. and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). With the emergence of Communist China as a third world power in fighting revisionist and capitalist western societies represented by the USSR and the U.S., he emphasizes that nuclear test ban and disarmament treaties plays an important role in achieving political stabilization and peaceful coexistence between the USSR and the capitalist western countries.