{"id":5959,"date":"2024-11-25T18:48:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T18:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/iacs\/?p=5959"},"modified":"2025-01-07T00:35:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:35:38","slug":"what-were-reading-russian-nuclear-orthodoxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/iacs\/2024\/11\/25\/what-were-reading-russian-nuclear-orthodoxy\/","title":{"rendered":"What We&#8217;re Reading: Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/iacs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2024\/11\/Russian-Nuclear-Orthodoxy-web-hero-768x432.png\"\n    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dinner tables \u2013 usually takes as its starting point the belief that nuclear war is a very bad idea. And, whether advocating disarmament or deterrence, we take it as a given that the Church opposes war and works for peace. Indeed, Pope Francis maintains that even the possession of nuclear weapons is immoral.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Orthodox Church begs to differ.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy<\/em>, Dmitry Adamsky, professor in the School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the IDC Herzliya, Israel, explains why. Beginning with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Adamsky tells the story of the Russian Orthodox Church\u2019s changing relationship with the Russian government and military. In 1991 the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) was barely tolerated and faithful Orthodox Christians had been persecuted for decades under the USSR\u2019s atheistic ideology. Today the ROC and the Russian government work in tandem on many fronts\u2014not least of which is the nuclear arm of the Russian military.<\/p>\n<p>Adamsky divides the book into three parts, each corresponding to one decade since the collapse of the Soviet Union. During the \u201cGenesis Decade,\u201d 1991-2000, members of the nuclear military establishment found themselves in an unfamiliar position. Given the seismic changes in their nation, including loss of both respect and funding for the nuclear industry, their future was uncertain. That uncertainty resulted in a search for new meaning. The ROC stepped into the void and began to provide priests and churches for dispirited nuclear personnel.<\/p>\n<p>In the \u201cConversion Decade,\u201d 2000-2010, Adamsky traces the ways the ROC continued to integrate itself into the government and military. During these years Vladimir Putin and other leaders began to publicly voice an openness toward religion.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Adamsky describes 2010-2020 as the \u201cOperationalization Decade\u201d in which personal religious desire and public approval came together to give the ROC an official militaristic role.<\/p>\n<p>Each of these three main sections further divides into three parts. \u201cState-Church Relations\u201d describes the general relationship between the government and the church. In \u201cFaith-Nuclear Nexus,\u201d Adamsky explains how the ROC participates specifically in the nuclear weapons complex. Third, \u201cStrategic Mythmaking\u201d recounts the ways religious norms and stories are used to validate the nexus.<\/p>\n<p>One example illustrates why the ROC and the Russian <em>nuclear<\/em> military have become so intertwined: the connection between St. Seraphim of Sarov and the closed nuclear city of Arzamos-16. St. Seraphim was the most popular starets (elder monk) in 19th-century Russia. Revered throughout Russian society by everyone from peasants to Tsar Nikolai II\u2019s family, St. Seraphim was canonized in the city of Sarov in 1903. After the 1918 Bolshevik Revolution, however, Soviets removed his relics, executed many of the monks in Sarov, turned the monastery into a prison, and then in 1946, renamed the city Arzamos-16 and chose it as the place where the first Soviet nuclear bomb would be produced.<\/p>\n<p>As the USSR fell, St. Seraphim\u2019s relics were discovered in the Museum of Atheism \u2014 formerly the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg. The return of the relics to Sarov necessitated an unheard-of level of cooperation between the government and the ROC: the minister of atomic energy agreed to welcome the Patriarch of Moscow; a nuclear industry construction team renovated the monastery; and the regional head of the government provided his own car to transport the Patriarch for the ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>And so it began \u2013 with a town inextricably linked to both the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian nuclear industry. Now, thirty years later, mobile churches are deployed so that priests can participate in field maneuvers, Russian nuclear submarines are consecrated, and many pilots bring icons into their cockpits. The re-emergence of the ROC in post-Soviet Russia has resulted not only in reinvigorated faith throughout the nation, but in a new phenomenon, captured in the book\u2019s title: <em>Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy<\/em>. Adamsky\u2019s story is compelling. Readers interested in the history of post-Soviet Russia or of the Orthodox Church will find it captivating. For those concerned about the nexus of religion and government worldwide, the book provides a case study in a context unfamiliar enough to prompt critical reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":5960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-insights","category-what-were-reading"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What We&#039;re Reading: Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"IACS Executive Director Becky King Cerling, Ph.D., reviews the book Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy by Dmitry 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