
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.