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= Solution

One direction follows because finitely many nilpotent coefficients generate a nilpotent <ideal>. Conversely, reducing a <nilpotent polynomial> modulo $N$ gives a nilpotent <polynomial> over the reduced <ring> $R/N$; comparing its highest nonzero coefficient shows it must be zero, so every coefficient lay in $N$.

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