Feb. 12, 2015

Ashton Carter Is Your New Secretary of Defense

By Jen Kirby

Photo: Lee Jin-man/Corbis

Ashton B. Carter is the new secretary of defense after the Senate confirmed his nomination on Thursday, 93 to 5. The physicist and former deputy defense secretary with a teen heartthrob name is replacing Chuck Hagel.

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