Resources should be applied differently, namely to development and deployment of effective strategic defenses and to less ambitious ICBM modernization programs programs that are compatible both with U.S. deterrent requirements and with verifiable arms control agreements, if such agreements can be negotiated.
Any such development under present circumstances would have predictable results in the Soviet Union: the fueling of continued strategic military modernization, the underwriting of widening domestic repression and the further deferral of genuine economic reform and democratization measures.