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I wonder if the Trinity bomb was named for von Clausewitz's trinity of war.
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The code name "Trinity" was assigned by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, possibly inspired by the poetry of John Donne. per Wikipedia

Yes, of course.
My comment was intended less literally, as a reminder that that those who start wars, in general but in particular those related to nukes, are at risk of forgetting that one of the three most fundamental aspects of war is unpredictability.

The original idea, in iambic pentameter.

War’s trinity, von Clausewitz did impart:
First, passion’s fire—the people’s violent heart.
Then chance and fate, which generals must rout;
And last, cold reason—policy's last redoubt.

(If you're going to use LLM, might as well make it work hard, but I had to rewrite it a bit)

Jim

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