The 1950's through 1980's were a long four decades of wars since WW2. Any advantage going into the cold war shouldn't of carried through to the 90's. And we h

The 1950's through 1980's were a long four decades of wars since WW2. Any advantage going into the cold war shouldn't of carried through to the 90's. And we had little insight into soviet technology in the 80's, so who's to say the technology wasn't on par. Western culture, I think, means that technology is moved from military to public applications faster and was easier to see.