Why can’t we ‘nuke’ a volcano?

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So I was watching a video the other day about a massive volcano that erupted in the 1800s. It released so much sulphur into atmosphere that the planet cooled by 2 degrees. Which led me to the absurd thought that maybe we could induce a volcano into erupting to cool the planet and negate some of the climate change we’re seeing?

EDIT: forget the word NUKE and just think about if we could trigger a volcano successfully to our benefit? I understand that we wouldn’t want nuclear fallout.

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Not to hijack but I always thought if there would be a way to nuke an impending hurricane. Like just drop it in the center. Would the displacement of air and water disrupt it or do we just have a radioactive hurricane now.

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