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Lena Nelson
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America's Youngest Ambassador
The Cold War Story of Samantha Smith's Lasting Message of Peace
By Lena Nelson
In 1982, amid the nuclear paranoia that engulfed the US and the Soviet Union, Samantha Smith, a fifth grader from Manchester, Maine, wrote a letter to the Kremlin asking the Soviet leader if he was going to start a war. When Pravda, the biggest Soviet newspaper, published her letter—and Samantha ...