Randall Forsberg became interested in arms control issues while working at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1974, she returned to the United States, and became a graduate student in international studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1979, Forsberg wrote Call to Halt the Arms Race, which later was the manifesto of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign. The document advocated a bilateral halt to the testing, production, deployment and delivery of nuclear weapons. Forsberg was awarded a doctorate in 1980 and she started the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies, which became an important resource for the peace movement and anti-nuclear weapons movement. In 1983 Forsberg was awarded a MacArthur Foundationgenius grant. In 2005 she became Spitzer Professorship in Political Science at the City College of New York, and died of cancer in 2007 at the age of 64.
Campaigns
2002 Write-In candidate for Senate, Massachusetts.
1980 launched the national Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign.
three visits to Seoul, South Korea, in 2001 to participate in panels on North-South Korean reconciliation and arms reductions—two at the invitation of the South Korean military, and one at the invitation of South Korean peace activists.
IDDS Database of World Arms Holdings, Production, and Trade.
Arms Control Reporter, Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies
Articles
"Citizens and Arms Control",Boston Review,October/November 2002 http://bostonreview.net/BR27.5/forsberg.html
Randall Forsberg and Jonathan Cohen make it clear that the U.S. has no nation-state enemies left who could mount a sustained threat to our national security; see "Issues and Choices in Arms Production and Trade," in Randall Forsberg, editor, THE ARMS PRODUCTION DILEMMA, pgs. 269–290.
the Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race, the manifesto of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, and she helped found and lead the campaign. 1980
"Randall Forsberg discusses her work and the current international situation", Peace Magazine, Aug-Sep 1989. http://archive.peacemagazine.org/v05n4p10.htm
Nonproliferation Primer MIT Press April 1995 168 pp., 15 illus. https://web.archive.org/web/20060916200420/http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=7575
The Arms Production Dilemma: Contraction and Restraint in the World Combat Aircraft Industry 320 pp. https://web.archive.org/web/20060911014737/http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=4556
Cutting Conventional Forces
Peace Resource Book
The Price of Defense
Resources Devoted to Military Research and Development: An International Comparison
