Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb calling the book "exemplary". One reviewer, however, writing for "Publishers Weekly", found the text confusing to follow and derided the marketing, along with book itself, because of "flat illustrations, heavy use of captions, and stiff, static panels of talking heads". Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb is the debut graphic novel written and illustrated by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm. It provides an account of the Manhattan Project and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as mentioning the chain of events after. The title arises from the code-name,
Shield of the Trinity included in books such as the "Handbook of Christian Symbolism" by William James Audsley and George Ashdown Audsley (1865). The only name for this diagram which was in any regular use during the Middle Ages was "Scutum Fidei" (a Latin phrase meaning "Shield of the Faith", taken from the Vulgate of Ephesians verse 6:16). For example, in this c. 1247–1258 manuscript of John of Wallingford's writings, the quote from Ephesians 6:16 is placed directly above the diagram. The particular phrase "Shield of the Trinity", which is now the most common name for the diagram in English, didn't come into regular