In a message read during a ceremony in Christ the Savior Cathedral, Moscow, and reported by the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda, the Russian Orthodox patriarch, Alexis II, said: “I offer prayers to God... that the nuclear weapons created by you and entrusted to you will always remain in God’s hands and will only be weapons of deterrence and retaliation. ”
ان تبقى الاسلحة النووية التي صنعتموها واؤتمنتم عليها مظلَّلة بالعناية الإلهية ،‏ وألا تُستعمل إلا في ردع المعتدين والرد عليهم » .‏