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Ash Carter

Also known as Ashton Baldwin "Ash" Carter, Ashton Baldwin Carter, Ashton B. Carter, Ashton Carter

25th United States Secretary of Defense

Person · Open Library

Works: 8

Top works

Technology and National Security
Presenting the Antichrist and False Prophet
Welcome to the End Times
Life Isn't Everything
Inside the Five-Sided Box

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Film & TV

Acting · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Known for

VICE Special Report: A World in Disarray — Self2017
StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson — Self2015
Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest2014

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United States
Active from: 1954-11-18

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Discography

Twilight: Interpretations for Piano and Violin

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 12
Total plays: 49

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,520x
Robust enumeration of cell subsets from tissue expression profiles
· 2015 · cited 11,312x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,815x
The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,178x
Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,395x

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Quotes

“There was never a conspiracy, never a tremendous fear. This is a society which is now in its third generation of severe political repression, so that children in North Korea have several hours of political education a day. Their parents did, and their grandparents did.”
“The military option will remain on the table. If there is a good agreement to have, obviously it's worth waiting for and completing the negotiations.”
“I don't know how long the North Korean regime can last. But we can't just wait for them to collapse, because in the meantime, they can do lasting damage to our security.”
“I hope that the North Koreans understand that the conclusions that we came to are conclusions that are embedded in America's security situation.”
“Our nightmare, any of us, which would change the way we lived our lives, was if we thought that any moment Al Qaeda might detonate a nuclear weapon in a city anywhere in the world, because we learned that they had gotten hold of some plutonium from the North Koreans by sale, or when the North Korean regime collapsed, somebody smuggled it out.”
“We need to change because the world is changing, and we need to anticipate what is next and be there first, as the US military has always been. So, the changes in our future, I think is something that we are all completely committed to.”

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Key facts

President: Barack Obama
Deputy: Robert O. Work
Preceded by: Chuck Hagel
Succeeded by: Jim Mattis
Secretary: Leon Panetta Chuck Hagel
Born: Ashton Baldwin Carter , ( 1954-09-24 ) September 24, 1954, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , U.S.
Died: October 24, 2022 (2022-10-24) (aged 68), Boston , Massachusetts , U.S.
Party: Democratic
Spouses: Clayton Spencer ( divorced ) Stephanie DeLeeuw
Relations: Cynthia DeFelice (sister)
Education: Yale University ( BA ) St John's College, Oxford ( DPhil )
Thesis: Hard processes in perturbative QCD (1979)
Doctoral advisor: Christopher Llewellyn Smith

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Wikidata facts

Image: Ashton Carter DOD photo.jpg
Number of children: 2

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Commons category: Ashton Carter
date of birth: 1954-09-24
name in native language: Ashton Carter
P10632: Ash Carter
date of death: 2022-10-24
affiliation string: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

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Article

Ashton Baldwin Carter (September 24, 1954 – October 24, 2022) was an American government official and academic who served as the 25th United States secretary of defense from February 2015 to January 2017. He later served as director of the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School.

Carter began his career as a physicist. After a brief experience as an analyst for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, he switched careers to public policy. He joined the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1984 and became chair of the International & Global Affairs faculty. Carter served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy during President Clinton's first term, from 1993 to 1996, responsible for policy regarding the former Soviet states, strategic affairs, and nuclear weapons.