Orthodox Church: Russian priests should stop blessing nukes

We bless our family members, our patriarchs & matriarchs, our homes . . . We bless our farmlands, and our pets. We bless our governing bodies. We bless our soldiers, individually and as deploying units.

I cannot imagine why we would not bless our weapons and weapon systems. Nuclear weapons are the greatest deterrent to war that we've ever had. The nucs of the 60s, 70s & 80s proved that. Why would we not bless our nuclear weapons, and why would Russia not ask a blessing on theirs? That's my stand on the subject, Orthodox Church can do as they please, of course. I'm okay if I'm not agreed with on this. Having served in the artillery during the Cold War and as the widow of a soldier who served in an artillery battalion during Desert Storm may affect my opinion.

I did a search for scripture that might apply and several topics popped up - prayers for our deploying soldiers, scriptures about hope & protection; an article titled, "Does Jesus Want Bible-Toting Christians?" I read that article, btw, and it's not real high quality (the writer of the article that follows immediately after is pretty foul-mouthed & hate-filled so I wouldn't even recommend that site as being very credible).

The one scripture that made sense, and struck me that applies is Proverbs 25:26 --