Defense & Military

Ashton Carter, defense secretary who oversaw beginnings of nuclear modernization, dead at 68

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Former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, 68, a Rhodes scholar and theoretical physicist who helmed the Pentagon between 2015 and 2017, died of a heart attack Tuesday  at his home in Boston.
At the time of his death, Carter was director of the Belfer Center for…

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