Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual


				That's the story Prof. Roy Glauber remembers the making of the atomic bomb Production: @benasque.org Director: María T. Soto-Sanfiel, Óscar Cusó Executive producer: José Ignacio Latorre

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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