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Alexander K. Bollfrass

Dr. Alexander K. Bollfrass is a senior researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS). He was previously a Stanton Nuclear Security postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Before earning a PhD in security studies from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, he was a nuclear weapons policy researcher at the Arms Control Association and Stimson Center.