AMERICA'S YOUNGEST AMBASSADOR: The Cold War Story of Samantha Smith's Lasting Message of Peace

In 1982, amid the nuclear paranoia that engulfed the U.S. and the Soviet Union, Samantha Smith, a fifth grader from Maine, wrote a letter to the Kremlin asking Soviet leader Yuri Andropov whether he was going to start a war. When the Soviet newspaper Pravda published her letter and Samantha received an invitation to visit the Soviet Union, her family embarked on a historic journey. Photos.