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发帖数: 61690 | 1 He’s the “superhero of sequestration,” a theoretical physicist and a
favorite of Republicans on Capitol Hill.
And soon, Ashton Carter is likely to be President Obama’s fourth secretary
of Defense.
The veteran official is expected to be named as the replacement for Chuck
Hagel at the Pentagon, with the White House singing his praises ahead of an
announcement that could come any day.
He was a physics instructor at Oxford, a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller
University and MIT, and an experimental research associate at Brookhaven and
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发帖数: 787 | 2 身为物理学家的卡特，曾为国防部的二号文职官员。利昂·E·帕内塔(Leon E.
Panetta)去年卸任国防部长一职时，卡特是接替他的人选之一。此前，卡特在国防部负
责武器采购，任务包括缩减或取消过时及低效的武器项目。他还负责执行国防部5000亿
美元（约合3万亿元人民币）的开支削减。这一削减计划始于2012年，预计需要十多年
的时间完成。
卡特从耶鲁获得了物理学及中世纪史学的学位，后在牛津获得了理论物理学博士学位。
过去两年里，他在学术界从事研究。不过外界普遍认为，他管理国防部将很称职，不会
在参议院的提名确认听证会上遇到什么麻烦。 |
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