Lol. And that ain't the most hilarious one.
This one takes the cake:
Apart from that funny-sounding name - Yeah US, do us (the Global South, I mean) a big favor and bankrupt yourself in the process.
Looking back into the nuclear stockpile history of the NPT-designated nuclear weapon states since 1945:
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In particular, that of the USA vs the USSR/Russia:
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During the Cold War, the USSR possessed around 40 thousand nuclear warheads at its stockpile peak in the mid-late 1980s, while the US possesed slightly over 30 thousand nuclear warheads at its stockpile peak in the mid-late 1960s. Meanwhile, the combined total number of nuclear warheads possessed by the UK and France has never went past 1000 at its peak.
Therefore, if the nuclear arms race is resumed once again, I have a better idea - Russia and China should work together in this race to "beat" the US-led NATO.
Here, "beating" the US-led NATO in this race doesn't necessarily mean having more nuclear warheads than the opposing side, but to hava a combined nuclear warhead stockpile and nuclear deterrence capability that is at least close to/on-par with the combined nuclear stockpile and nuclear deterrence capability of the US-led NATO. The goal here is to exhaust the US-led NATO's efforts (the US, and perhaps the UK, in particular) into producing, deploying and maintaining their nuclear stockpile, while guaranteeing an on-par mutually-assured destruction (MAD) capability is in place.
To take a rough figure as an example:
From my own rough calculation, the number of nuclear warheads held by the US and Russia throughout history from the data table above hovers around 14000-15000, respectively. Therefore, in order to achieve the same level of nuclear deterrence, China and Russia should work together to expand their combined nuclear stockpile into the same level as prescribed.
Russia already has around 6000 nuclear warheads today. In order to reach the 15000~ warheads-combined nuclear stockpile goal, China could chip in to either:
#1 - Fill up the rest of the gap, i.e. ~9000 nuclear warheads; or
#2 - Split the 15000~ warhead goal into two equal halves - Russia would be responsible for one half, i.e. 7500 nuclear warheads, while China would be responsible for the other half i.e. 7500 nuclear warheads.
Recall that the combined number of nuclear warheads of UK and France in history at its peak is around 1000. In order to fill up the rest of the ~14000 nuclear warhead gap on the US-led NATO side, the US would have to shoulder responsibility of the production, deployment and maintenance of the ~14000 nuclear warheads -
ALONE.
Considering the present situation of the Russian military and the need for modernizing their conventional armed forces in the coming years in the backdrop of worsened economic realities, I don't think Russia could do much in terms of increasing their own nuclear stockpile. On the other hand, China has the absolute manpower, resource and economic advantage to enable the massive expansion of her nuclear stockpile, should Beijing intends to. Therefore, personally speaking, #1 is more desirable.