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Nils Holst

Nils Holst is an intern at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and a master’s student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Nils is a Leventhal Fellow for international and nuclear security at UT-Austin, and a Brumley Next Generation Fellow at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law. He studies nuclear security and national defense policy.