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’m not 100% sure what you mean by this. Are you suggesting this as a way of disarming nuclear weapons? Or as a way of blocking a nuclear blast?

Right now, we don’t really have the sorts of materials necessary on the scale required for what you’re thinking of. Making a funnel that would contain a nuclear explosion is beyond our current technological capabilities.