• 2002 Write-In candidate for Senate, Massachusetts.
• 1980 launched the national Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign.

• 1995 appointed by President Clinton to Advisory Committee of US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
• 1989 briefed President Bush and his Cabinet officials on US-Soviet arms control issues.

• Served on panels for the US Congressional Research Service, the US General Accounting Office, and the US Office of Technology Assessment;
• Testified before US Congress
• Testified before Swedish Parliament
• 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.

• 1989 Pomerance Award
• 1983 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship [often called the "genius" award]

• B.A. Columbia University
• Ph.D. Political Science: Defense Policy; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Journals

• IDDS Database of World Arms Holdings, Production, and Trade. (annual)
• Arms Control Reporter, Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies (monthly since 1982)

Articles

• "Citizens and Arms Control",Boston Review,October/November 2002

• 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 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994), 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

Books

• Abolishing War: Culture and Institutions (with Elise Boulding, brc21.org: 1998).
• Nonproliferation Primer (with William Driscoll, Gregory Webb and Jonathan Dean) MIT Press April 1995

• The Arms Production DilemmaThe Arms Production Dilemma: Contraction and Restraint in the World Combat Aircraft Industry (MIT Press November 1994)320 pp.

• Cutting Conventional Forces (1DDS: 1989)
• Peace Resource Book (Lexiston Books: 1985)
• The Price of Defense (NYTimes: 1979)
• Resources Devoted to Military Research and Development: An International Comparison (SIPRI: 1972)