The girl managed to defuse the Cold War with a letter "No one would throw a nuclear bomb in a country where they were visiting their children or grandchildren."
... Or at least, no one to enter the imagination of a child. The idea to prevent a nuclear disaster was as simple as "crazy" had to organize a temporary cultural exchange grandchildren or even children between the leaders of the enemies, and possible nuclear attack would be blocked. The initiative could only be born and thrive in the mind of a girl frank smile and pure idealism: Samantha Smith.
Children have that particular problem, can not filter out "nonsense" to think. The lack of filters, which prevents them from disposing of large believe impossible. Thus, the logic that a world without bombs is possible and better than one to explode, there is no logic in the reality seems a utopia in reality, but it may be desired. And the filter fails again when the same child comes to think of sending a letter to a leader of a nuclear superpower, to ask for wisdom in time of war.
Thus, without filters, the story began to leave Samantha in his short life, the girl with simplicity put some warm air, or better, a touch of warmth in wartime Cold. And all with a bit of ink, paper, a letter with some sharp questions sent to the Soviet Communist Party Secretary Yuri Andropov, and a final prayer too complex condensed three wishes: to live in a peaceful world together without fighting " .
With only 10 years, soon became an emblem of peace, but above all, in a charming piece able to defuse the board of the Cold War.
His full name was Samantha Smith, born in 1972 in Houlton, a small town in Maine, USA. Among his childhood sympathetic actions, personalities accustomed to writing world with varying success. Apparently, he grew up with an early tendency to find out what was happening in the world, concerned with a time of increasing armaments and threats of nuclear attack. Thus, Samantha took the initiative to write to Yuri Andropov asking what the Soviets would take place before a nuclear war, and above all, clear their concerns about the state of the world.
In November 1982, wrote the letter, just a few lines with short and direct questions:
Dear Mr. Andropov:
My name is Samantha Smith. I have ten years of age. Congratulations on your new job. I was worried thinking about the possibility of Russia and the United States engage in a nuclear war. Will you vote for the war or not? If not, please tell me how to help prevent a war. This question does not have to answer, but I wonder why they want to conquer the world or at least our country. God made the world to live together in peace and not to fight.
Sincerely, Samantha Smith
The letter had an unexpected response in April 1983. Andropov, in another letter he acknowledged the courage to write, and explained the Soviet intentions by all means avoid a war. Furthermore, in the possession of nuclear weapons by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union, Andropov he clarified that the intention of his country was never having to use them, and above all, to achieve peace for all peoples of the planet. (So \u200b\u200bfar, a great paradox in code letters).
In the last paragraph of the letter, the most momentous, Andropov invited the girl and her family to visit the country in a kind of cultural exchange, an opportunity to meet people and way of life the Soviet Union.
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