This just from sifted info and some spec., But the wall came down in 1990. Shortly after, numerous speculators, crossed over and loaded up on techs, brought them to the U.S., Don started up the company from scratch around '92, looked into a few of these techs, started working with the sub in the Ukraine, which had welding from the Paton Institute and went from there. Short version and date guesstimates.