WAND is delighted to invite you to join us this January

The Nuclear Freeze Movement at 25
Grassroots Outreach Then and Now

Dr. Randall Caroline Forsberg Executive Director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (IDDS) Wednesday, January 25, 2006 | 6:30 p.m. Boston Research Center, Harvard Square 396 Harvard Street, Cambridge MA  (Directions) FREE and open to the public

Hear first-hand from the "mother of the freeze" as we commemorate 25 years of action and advocacy against nuclear weapons. For more about Dr. Forsberg, click here.

The BRC is located in the heart of Harvard Square -- which means parking is a bear. We encourage you to take the MBTA or to walk. Thanks. For full directions, click here.

About Dr. Randy Forsberg

In 1980, Forsberg founded IDDS, an independent nonprofit center for research and education on ways to reduce the risk of war, minimize the burden of military spending, and promote democratic institutions. At IDDS, Forsberg publishes the Arms Control Reporter, a monthly reference journal, and she is the series editor of the annually updated IDDS World Arms Database: Holdings, Production, and Trade.

Forsberg has authored or co-authored several books on nonproliferation, defense, war, peace, and more. She has contributed to Scientific American, International Security, Technology Review, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, World Policy Journal, and other journals.

She is the editor of the forthcoming IDDS annual survey, ArmsWatch 2005: Global Trends, Prospects, and Policy Options. Forsberg worked at SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, starting in 1968, and was a regular contributor to the SIPRI Yearbook of World Armaments and Disarmament, writing on US and Soviet nuclear weapons, until 1979.

In 1980 Forsberg wrote the "Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race," the four-page manifesto that launched the national Nuclear Weapon Freeze Campaign. After founding the Freeze Clearinghouse, she co-chaired the Freeze Campaign’s National Advisory Board in 1980–1984.

In November 1989, shortly before President George H W Bush's first meeting with Gorbachev, Forsberg gave a briefing at Camp David on US-Soviet arms control issues to President Bush and his foreign policy and security Cabinet officials. In 1995 Forsberg was appointed by President Clinton to the Director's Advisory Committee of the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

In 2001 Forsberg participated in several conferences in South Korea on the future of North-South Korean and US relations.

In 1983 Forsberg received a five-year MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in recognition of her work in defense studies and arms control.

Since 1975 she has given well over 1000 public lectures on peace, arms control, and disarmament issues throughout the United States and in several dozen other countries. Forsberg has also given testimony for the US Congress, lectured at West Point, the Air Force Academy, the US National Defense University, the German equivalent (Fuhrungsakademie), and the Swedish Parliament, and conferred privately with senior government officials in several countries.