I would say it predates the Cold War. The industrial revolution started in England, and then the US ran with it. The UK built the first ship with a steam engine, the US built the first ship to sail across the Atlantic under steam power, and that's basically been the pattern for the last 200 years. Humphrey Davy describes electromagnetism, Edison and Tesla build industrial scale power grids. England gave us Alan Turing, and in America you get IBM, Intel, Texas Instruments, Nvidia, AMD, Microsoft, Apple and Google.

While "the anglosphere" as this thread terms it has been inventing everything from antibiotics to thermonuclear weapons to the T-shirt, what have the rest of you been up to?

If it weren't for "The anglosphere" the rest of you would still be dying of smallpox by candle light.