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By April 1983, Samantha Smith, now 10, was worried as Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union raised the threat of nuclear confrontation. ....
Samantha Smith, in full Samantha Reed Smith, byname America’s Youngest Ambassador, (born June 29, 1972, Houlton, Maine, U.S. died August 25, 1985, Auburn, Maine), American peace activist and child actress, celebrated for giving children around the world a voice in the volatile Cold War during the 1980s. In December 1982, when she was 10 years old, Smith wrote a letter to the new leader of the Soviet Union, Yury Andropov. Having learned from public television of the apocalyptic potential of the nuclear arms race then escalating under Andropov and U.S. President Ronald Reagan, she asked Andropov to tell her what he ....