Leo Szilard becomes troubled as he sees the dangers that these nuclear weapons could produce, and travels with Eugene Wigner to talk with Albert Einstein about the possibility of Nazi scientists creating a bomb. The novel takes a shift, and begins to discuss the political environment. The story presents a brief timeline that continues up into the 1930s, when James Chadwick discovers neutrons and the discovery of nuclear fission.

The novel then goes back in time to 1898, when the Marie Curie and her husband discover radioactivity. Oppenheimer asks Daniels if he has ever heard of Prometheus, and upon receiving a 'No, sir', recounts the myth. Robert Oppenheimer as they are entering Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Trinity begins with a conversation between a soldier named Private Daniels and J. When that was impossible, I introduced language that hews closely to what I have learned of these characters over the course of my research.' He goes on to provide a bibliography of the works he consulted in creating the book. The book is written as a 'work of history', although Fetter-Vorm writes at the end of the book 'for the most part, the dialog from the principal characters in this book is taken from written records. The title arises from the code-name, Trinity, given to the test site for the first nuclear weapon. 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.

Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb is the debut graphic novel written and illustrated by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm.

Trinity by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm