Tatlock’s interest in the poetry of John Donne inspired Oppenheimer to name the first atomic bomb test ‘Trinity’, after Donne’s religious verse. Yet it was the fear of extinguishing the ...

Designed and launched under Oppenheimer's chosen codename "Trinity" — inspired by a poem by John Donne — the original $6,000 program budget skyrocketed to a cool $2 billion after Einstein ...

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site Trinity after a poem by John Donne that he had shared with his ...