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Dr. Randall Caroline Forsberg (() July 23, 1943 – () October 19, 2007) led a lifetime of research and advocacy on ways to reduce the risk of war, minimize the burden of military spending, and promote democratic institutions. Her career started at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute in 1968.
Oct 26, 2007 · Randall Forsberg, who as a typist at a peace institute in Sweden in the 1960s began studying the potentially terrifying consequences of nuclear proliferation, then helped start the nuclear freeze...
Nov 1, 2007 · Randall Forsberg, who founded the nuclear freeze movement of the early 1980s and wrote its manifesto, died Oct. 19 of endometrial cancer at a New York City hospital. She was 64.
Dec 2, 2008 · Randall Forsberg, a nuclear disarmament advocate and an important player in debates about U.S. defense policy during the Cold War, passed away on October 19, 2007, at age sixty-four.
Feb 2, 2022 · “We will not quietly stand by and watch our world go up in flames and radiation,” the late scholar-activist Randall Forsberg once roused a crowd of more than 700,000 protestors in New York’s Central Park, calling for an end to the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Although most famous for helping initiate the Nuclear Freeze movement, Randall Forsberg saw the campaign for nuclear disarmament as only one component of a broader movement against foreign military intervention, including US and Soviet interference in their respective "spheres of influence" in Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe.
Apr 1, 2010 · Randall Forsberg (née Watson, 1943–2007) was first exposed to arms control issues while working at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Initially employed as a typist, she eventually rose to become an editor and analyst at the Institute.
Dec 16, 2021 · The Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (IDDS) was founded in 1979 by the scholar-activist Randall Caroline Watson Forsberg (1943-2007) to conduct research on military forces and the prospects for disarmament and to provide knowledge in support of peace activism.
Few succeed in the way that Randall Caroline Forsberg did over the course of her long and productive career as a peace and disarmament researcher and activist. Randy, as she was known to many, died in New York on October 19 at the age of 64.
Randall Forsberg was director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An admired researcher and activist, she died in 2007.
