The Demon Core

John Zachary Thurman, Writer, Producer, Director

Sloan Grant(s) Received: 2023, USC, Production Award

Project Type: Short Film

Genre: Drama

Length: 27 minutes 23 seconds

Field of Science: Physics

Stage: Festival Run

Synopsis: 

A dramatization of the final days of Louis Alexander Slotin, the physicist who sacrificed his own life in order to save his colleagues during a criticality incident in 1946 involving a plutonium core known as The Demon Core.