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The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) aims to make precise measurements of long-baseline neutrino oscillations over a 1300 km baseline. The DUNE Far Detectors will be 10 kton Liquid Argon TPCs which require a dedicated prototyping effort (ProtoDUNE), currently ongoing at CERN. With gigantic Far Detectors, deep underground, DUNE will be able to detect neutrinos from a Galactic core-collapse supernova, should one occur, and search for nucleon decay and other physics beyond the Standard Model. The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will use a large liquid argon (LAr) detector consisting of four modules each with a fiducial mass of 10 ktons of LAr. Such gigantic detectors need large scale prototyping not only to determine the performance but also to validate the technology, engineering solutions, and installation procedures at large-scale. Two liquid argon Time Projection Chamber (TPC) technologies are being explored, Single Phase and Dual Phase, with kton-scale prototypes are currently being operated at the CERN neutrino platform. In this talk I will discuss the physics objectives of DUNE and the detectors necessary to achieve them focusing particularly on the Dual-Phase technology.