www.SamanthaSmith.info

This site is dedicated to the life and memory of Samantha Smith, America's youngest ambassador, as well as to the work of the Samantha Smith Foundation.

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In November of 1982, at the height of Cold War, Samantha Smith, a 10-year-old girl from Manchester, Maine, wrote to the Soviet leader Yuri Andropov and asked him he was going to wage a nuclear war against the U.S. When an unprecedented response from Andropov arrived, and Samantha received an invitation to visit the USSR, she and her family embarked on a journey that brought the two warring nations closer together.

 

Sadly, Samantha died three years later, on a rainy August night in 1985 when the commercial plane she was in crashed killing all aboard. 

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