At dawn on July 16, 1945, the New Mexico desert confirmed a suspicion.

Scientists detonated an experimental plutonium implosion device and learned—part relieved, part petrified—the design worked.

The test, a final climax of the Manhattan Project, was code-named Trinity.

Most remember the flash. The physics. The moral debates that followed.

But history tends to favor clean narratives, so it picked a single face to pin it on.

J. Robert Oppenheimer.

And yet…

Paul Tibbets, the Air Force officer who commanded the atomic bomb delivery program, saw it differently.

From where he sat, it emerged from an unlikely alignment.

In a conversation with journalist Studs Terkel, Tibbets described it like this:

“[Oppenheimer’s] a young, brilliant person. And he’s a chain smoker and he drinks cocktails. And he hates fat men. And General Leslie Groves, he’s a fat man, and he hates people who smoke and drink. The two of them are the first, original odd couple.”

That odd pairing, he said, was the engine.

Trinity happened when opposing instincts locked together long enough to produce something nobody else could.

A Tension of Opposites

History has a habit of sanding things down until messy, complicated efforts look like they sprang up cleanly.

It tends to skip over how transformational moments actually take shape: where opposing events and people converge.

At Paradigm, we’ve seen this pattern repeat across markets, technologies, and political cycles.

Major shifts almost always begin with contradiction.

Innovation collides with regulation. Vision collides with bureaucracy. New systems collide with old power structures.

When those forces remain in conflict, opportunities emerge unevenly. But then, when they do align—even briefly—systems change permanently.

Of course, moments like that are rare and hard to spot before the crowd. And if you happen to spot one forming early, it can feel more unsettling than inspiring.

Still, they produce the biggest opportunities—and the biggest risks—of a generation.

At Paradigm, where we’re host to many different viewpoints under one roof, tension isn’t accidental.

It’s the point.

Easy agreement is dangerous. It lets weak assumptions slide by. It creates blind spots. Friction forces better questions.

And every once in a while, that tension converges into one spot… with massive implications.

Trump. Musk. Nvidia.

As you probably know, James is the first to admit when something sounds crazy.

He’s made crazy calls before. Early. Uncomfortable. Easy to dismiss at the time.

What makes his latest prediction so big isn’t just the size of it… 

It’s also the alignment behind it.

Because this isn’t James out on a limb.

It’s James, Jim Rickards, and Enrique Abeyta—three Paradigm editors with very different instincts—planting their feet in the same place.

And they’re not JUST aligned on the scope of what’s coming. They’re aligned on the exact same opportunity.

Right now, a government initiative is taking shape that brings together three of the most powerful entities in the world—Trump, Musk, and Nvidia.

They’re calling it Project Trinity.

And, because of it, capital is preparing to move at a scale we haven’t seen in decades.

That kind of convergence doesn’t happen often here. In fact, this is only the second time the three of them have gone all in together.

The last time they made a recommendation together, shares skyrocketed 180% when the markets caught onto what was happening.

BUT this time is different.

The setup’s bigger. The stakes are higher. And the window to get in is tighter.

If you’re a Paradigm Mastermind Group member, you’ll hear about it FIRST in our weekly update on Wednesday.

Keep your eyes peeled.