Containing a nuclear blast inside a giant solid metal sphere

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Say you detonated a 1 megaton device inside a solid steel ball maybe...1 mile in radius. What would happen?
 
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It would probably melt. If it doesn't melt, then as far as we on the outside are concerned, probably nothing at all.