The first atomic bomb was exploded at a place called the 'Trinity Test Site'...were the bomb's designers trying to make some sort of religious metaphore when they named the place...if not, then what was the origion of 'Trinity' in the name of the location?

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The origin of the code name Trinity for the test site is also interesting, but the true source is unknown. One popular account attributes the name to J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific head of the Manhattan Project. According to this version, the well read Oppenheimer based the name Trinity on the fourteenth Holy Sonnet by John Donne, a 16th century English poet and sermon writer. The sonnet started, 'Batter my heart, three-personed God.'%5B2%5D Another version of the name's origin comes from University of New Mexico historian Ferenc M. Szasz. In his 1984 book, The Day the Sun Rose Twice, Szasz quotes Robert W. Henderson head of the Engineering Group in the Explosives Division of the Manhattan Project. Henderson told Szasz that the name Trinity came from Major W. A. (Lex) Stevens. According to Henderson, he and Stevens were at the test site discussing the best way to haul Jumbo (see below) the thirty miles from the closest railway siding to the test site. 'A devout Roman Catholic, Stevens observed that the railroad siding was called 'Pope's Siding.' He %5Bthen%5D remarked that the Pope had special access to the Trinity, and that the scientists would need all the help they could get to move the 214 ton Jumbo to its proper spot.'%5B3%5D http://tanaya.net/Books/1trnt10/ Jan 12 03, 4:24 PM