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Production: [email protected]
Director: María T. Soto-Sanfiel, Óscar Cusó
Executive producer: José Ignacio Latorre

Short pitch

Nobel laureate Prof. Roy J. Glauber is the last living scientist from the Theory Division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. His clear, fluent and articulate narration brings first hand information on the life at Los Alamos, the main scientific characters there, the Trinity test of the first ever nuclear weapon, the bombing of Japan and the political aftermath of the project. Glauber's account is documented with audiovisual material recently declassified from the Los Alamos Archive.

Synopsis

In October 1941, President Roosevelt approved a crash program -known as the Manhattan project- to develop an atomic bomb. Nobel laureate Roy J. Glauber was only 18 when he joined the project. He is the last living person from the Theory Division at Los Alamos and the last person to tell first hand his insight of how the bomb was constructed. Glauber's perfect narration covers the daily life at Los Alamos, the relation among the famous scientists (Oppenheimer, Teller, Fermi, Bethe, Feynman,...) that worked in the project and the feelings that came to them on the day of the Trinity first test. He further goes into the political aftermath, including the hearings against Oppenheimer. Glauber's account is only punctuated by original videos recently declassified at the Los Alamos Archive. The documentary 'That's the story' brings, in some sense, the last true voice telling the story of how the first atomic bomb was made.

Screenings

CCBPP, Benasque, Spain
Higgs Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
IFAE, Bacelona, Spain
CP3-Origins, Odense, Denmark
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
UB, Barcelona, Spain
MIT, USA
Canal 33, Regional TV channel from Catalonia, Spain
University of Oxford, UK
Stanford University, USA
TV2, Spain
Max Planck at Erlangen, Germany
ICFO, Spain
Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
IFT, Madrid, Spain
Innsbruck, Austria
Associaciò Astronòmica de Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain
Universitá di Trento, Italy
Konversatorium, Krakow, Poland
University of Warsaw, Poland
Instytut Fizyki Warsaw, Poland
Universidad de Granada, Spain
KCIK, Sopot, Poland
It was presented at the Berlinale and Cannes by Moonrise Pictures
NUS Singapore, Singapore
INFN, Torino, Italy
U. Santiago de Compostela, Spain
DIPC, Donosti - San Sebastian, Spain
Università di Pavia, Italy
Università di Milano, Italy
IST Lisbon, Portugal
UVA Amsterdam, Holland
Obrechtkerk church, Holland
NUS, Singapore
2023- ADunicamp, Brazil
2023 - IMECC-Unicamp, Brazil
2023 - IMECC-Unicamp, Brazil
2023 - University of Sharjah, UAE
2024 - Facultad de CC. Físicas de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain