Why can’t we “cup” a nuclear blast in order to focus the blast power on an object and, with precise measurements, aim it at the Sun to be burned up eventually?

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Basically, picture a cherry bomb under a really strong teacup that stayed in one piece during the explosion and shot up in the air, but scaled up a whole lot.

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I know nothing about this but will still try to make sense of why we can’t:

1. we don’t have the resources. What exists to take the impact of a nuclear blast and not annihilate. But also even if we do have a system, energy is hard to control
2. again control. we are talking about controlling on earth what takes place in the stars, again possible, but difficult so who knows, a blast to the sun ends up hitting venus
3. expensive, not only the making of such a cup, which is probably around billions, but also the clean up of the radioactive aftermath which would be out in the open since the blast would need to be fairly open ended.

hence we are very “behind” in tech to build this, but this is probably the premise of intergalactic travel in the future. probably need a closed system that expends the energy in a ways thats not harmful, but again material is not known to sustain such an impact while being a launching ground.