Warhead: The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World

Set in 1986, this memoir recounts Jeff Henigson’s experience with brain cancer as a fifteen-year-old. Through the Starlight Children’s Foundation, he makes a wish to meet Mikhail Gorbachev in Russia. Jeff hopes to use that meeting to urge nuclear disarmament and peace. The book brings together his illness, his wish, travel to Russia, and his effort to speak about the danger of nuclear weapons.