Samantha Smith

And you ask are we doing anything so that war will not break out. The two superpowers had by this point abandoned their strategy of détente and in response to the Soviet deployment of SS-20s Reagan moved to deploy cruise and Pershing II missiles to Europe. In 2003 Voronezh retiree Valentin Vaulin built a monument to her without any support from the government.

She wrote a book about her visit to the Soviet Union and co-starred in the television series Lime Street before her death at the age of 13 in the Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 plane crash. Smith attracted extensive media attention in both countries as a "Goodwill Ambassador" and became known as "America's Youngest Ambassador" participating in peacemaking activities in Japan.