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===Code name=== The origin of the code name "Trinity" for the test is unknown, but it is often attributed to Oppenheimer as a reference to the poetry of [[John Donne]], which in turn references the Christian belief of the [[Trinity]]. In 1962, Groves wrote to Oppenheimer about the origin of the name, asking if he had chosen it because it was a name common to rivers and peaks in the West and would not attract attention, and elicited this reply: {{blockquote|I did suggest it, but not on that ground ... Why I chose the name is not clear, but I know what thoughts were in my mind. There is a poem of John Donne, written just before his death, which I know and love. From it a quotation: "As West and East / In all flatt Maps{{snd}}and I am one{{snd}}are one, / So death doth touch the Resurrection."{{sfn|Donne|1896|pp=211β212}}{{efn|From the poem "[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44114/hymn-to-god-my-god-in-my-sickness Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness]"}} That still does not make a Trinity, but in another, better known devotional poem Donne opens: "[[Batter my heart, three person'd God]]."{{efn|''[[Holy Sonnets]]'', [[s:Holy Sonnets/Holy Sonnet 14|Holy Sonnet 14]]}}{{sfn|Donne|1896|p=165}}{{sfn|Rhodes|1986|pp=571β572}}}}
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