Soviet applied mathematicians, mostnotably Kantorovitch, made major contributions to linear programming in the 1930s (not the 60s), precisely to make central pl

Soviet applied mathematicians, mostnotably Kantorovitch, made major contributions to linear programming in the 1930s (not the 60s), precisely to make central planning viable, but it's the US that cracked the nut with George Dantzig's Simplex Algorithm in 1947, which enabled complex USAF logistics.