Trinity : A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb

Trinity. the debut graphic book by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm. depicts the dramatic history of the race to build and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb in World War Two. This sweeping historical narrative traces the spark of invention from the laboratories of nineteenth-century Europe to the massive industrial and scientific efforts of the Manhattan Project. and even transports the reader into a nuclear reaction-into the splitting atoms themselves. The power of the atom was 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 Oppenheimer. Focused from the start on the monumentally difficult task of building an atomic weapon. these men and women soon began to wrestle with the moral implications of ...