Former US Defence Secretary Harold Brown Dies at 91 - Reports

The New York Times reported citing Brown's daughter that he had died from pancreatic cancer at his home in Rancho Santa Fe, California.

Brown was a nuclear physicist who led US efforts to modernise its defence system with weapons that included cruise missiles, stealth aircraft, and other weapons programmes.

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In the 1970s, Brown had been a delegate to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks involving the United States and the Soviet Union.