Trinity, the debut graphic book by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, depicts the dramatic hi
story of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb in Wor
ld War Two. This sweeping historical narrative traces the spark of invention fro
m the laboratories of nineteenth-century Europe to the massive industrial and sc
ientific efforts of the Manhattan Project, and even transports the reader into a
nuclear reaction--into the splitting atoms themselves.
The power of the atom w
as harnessed in a top-secret government compound in Los Alamos, New Mexico, by a
group of brilliant scientists led by the enigmatic wunderkind J. Robert Oppenhe
imer. Focused from the start on the monumentally difficult task of building an a
tomic weapon, these men and women soon began to wrestle with the moral implicati
ons of actually succeeding. When they detonated the first bomb at a test site co
de-named Trinity, they recognized that they had irreversibly thrust the world in
to a new and terrifying age.
