![]() ![]() Thirty-three years after the Trinity test on July 16, 1978, poet Allen Ginsberg published his nuclear protest poem “Plutonian Ode”, excerpted here. Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,ĭivorce me, untie or break that knot again Įxcept you enthrall me, never shall be free, ![]() Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,īut is captived, and proves weak or untrue. Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. That I may rise and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend He named the atomic test “Trinity” in a conflicted homage to John Donne’s poem, “Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God”:īy John Donne:īatter my heart, three-personed God for youĪs yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend The test of the implosion-design plutonium device was codenamed Trinity, part of the Manhattan Project. ![]() The bomb lit up the sky and scorched the earth at the White Sands Proving Ground over the Jornada del Muerto desert in New Mexico. Sixty-six years ago on Jthe world witnessed the first atomic bomb test. ![]()
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