Mount St. Helens: America’s Deadliest Eruption

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Source/Further reading:
History overview: www.history.com/topics/natura...
List and bio details on all 57 victims: eruptionbook.com/victims/
More details on some victims: blogs.scientificamerican.com/...
Mistakes that led to deaths, and details on some of those deaths: www.latimes.com/archives/la-x...
More on the mistakes: historynewsnetwork.org/articl...
How the death toll could’ve been much worse: www.nationalgeographic.com/ne...
Incredible photos of the blast, during and after: www.theatlantic.com/photo/201...
The weird tale of Harry R. Truman: www.sciencehistory.org/distil...
www.spokesman.com/stories/202...
www.cbsnews.com/news/one-man-...
Map of victims: www.columbian.com/news/2010/m...
Future eruptions: www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mount-...