Slotin's accident is echoed in the 1947 film The Beginning or the End, in which a scientist assembling the bomb destined for Hiroshima dies after coming into contact with radioactive material. It was recounted in Dexter Masters ' 1955 novel The Accident, a fictional account of the last few days of the life of a nuclear scientist suffering from radiation poisoning. Depictions of the criticality incident include the 1989 film Fat Man and Little Boy, in which John Cusack plays a fictional character named Michael Merriman based on Slotin, and the Louis Slotin Sonata, a 2001 off-Broadway play directed by David P. Moore.