Los Alamos National Lab

Los Alamos National Laboratory (commonly abbreviated to LANL) is an American laboratory that is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy. It is best known for being the place where the atomic bombs were invented.
==History==
It was founded during World War II as a secret and centralized facility, to coordinate the research of the Manhattan Project.
General Leslie Groves wanted a central laboratory at an isolated location for safety, and to keep the scientists away from populace. Major John Dudley suggested Oak City, Utah, or Jemez Springs, New Mexico. Project Y director J. Robert Oppenheimer had spent much time in his youth in the New Mexico area and suggested the Los Alamos Ranch School on the mesa. This was originally panned by Dudley but Groves said "This is the place".
On October 19, 1942, Oppenheimer became the laboratory's first director.
On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was invented there, which was codenamed "Trinity".
==Channel==
The channel was created on February 20, 2008, and it uploaded its first video seven days later, titled "Los Alamos tests of conventional high explosives". On November 2, 2017, it uploaded its first and only short, titled "Binary merger".
==Trivia==
*Its current director is Thomas Mason.
==References==
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