race? More often than not, it is the US that has upped the ante. They consistently had more nuclear warheads than the Soviet Union, new technologies that disrupted the status quo came generally from the West.
The USA practiced the WWII german approach.... high technology to make up for smaller resource base. The USSR practiced the WWII approach of the Allies.... drown the opponent in your production capacity of basic killing machines. If you are trying to make us believe that the USSR had smaller arsenals and lesser numbers of soliers manning the front lines, you are going to have to take your proposition to one of those "progressive" forums where historical fact is not permitted to get in the way of a good work of ideological fiction. You're two generations too late, old lad..... You should have been a writer of encyclopedia articles for the Stalin regime.