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News Releases Stockpile stewardship video now on YouTube
The video highlights work at DARHT, supercomputing, and plutonium science.
January 31, 2012—A shortened, nine-minute version of the Bradbury Science Museum's video, Stockpile Stewardship at Los Alamos: Heritage of Science, is now available on the LANL YouTube channel.
Stockpile Stewardship was conceived in the early 1990s as a national science-based program that could assure the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear deterrent without the need for full-scale underground nuclear testing.
Original video at Bradbury
This video was produced by LANL staff and is narrated by science correspondent Miles O'Brien. The original 15-minute video can be seen multiple times daily at the Bradbury Science Museum in the Defense Exhibit theater.
For more about the Bradbury Science Museum, visit their new website.
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