Humanity’s nuclear arsenal is capable of destroying all life on Earth repeatedly. Maybe it's time we dispose of it far away. We might want to inhabit other planets in the future, so how about our closest star? How many nukes could we throw at the Sun? What would be the cost of this mission? And could we accidentally destroy our only source of daylight?

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