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Comment Trinity Gregory A Petsko Address: Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA. E-mail: petsko@ Published: 30 August 2005 Genome Biology 2005, 6:118 (doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-9-118) The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at /2005/6/9/118 ? 2005 BioMed Central Ltd “The whole world lit up.” That’s how Jack Aeby, who took the only color photograph of the event, remembers the explosion of the first atomic bomb, at Alamogordo, New Mexico, 60 years ago, at 5:30 in the morning, on Monday, 16 July 1945 (you can see the historic picture at ). Rio Grande, had a run-in there with the Spanish Inquisition in 1669 over the selling of magical charms. Gruber was imprisoned on a rancho near Sandia Pueblo (later Albu- querque) for two years. Somehow, he managed to escape, only to be killed by Apaches while fleeing back to Sonora. The lonely and desolate place on the trail south of Socorro where Gruber’s body was found came to be known as ‘Jornado del Muerte’ (The Dead Man’s Route). That was the spot that Bainbridge had chosen, and that Oppenheimer code-named Trinity. Another observer had a similar thought. J. Robert Oppen- heimer, the scientific head of the Manhattan Project that created the bomb and a student of Sanskrit literature, was suddenly reminded of a verse from the Bhagavad Gita: If the radiance of a thousand suns The Allied atomic bomb project came about, as everybody knows, because Albert Einstein wrote a letter to US Presi- dent Franklin Delano Roosevelt, warning him of rumored German efforts to develop a nuclear weapon, and urging that the US begin a crash program to do the same. Einstein actu- ally only signed the letter, which was written by two Hungar- ian physicists, Eugene Wigner and Leo Szilard. In fact, the atomic age really began, as so much