Obama Limits When U.S. Would Use Nuclear Arms

By DAVID E. SANGER and PETER BAKER
Published: April 5, 2010

WASHINGTON — President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under which the United States would use nuclear weapons.

Stephen Crowley/The New York Times

President Obama on Monday discussing his new nuclear strategy, which would limit the conditions for using such weapons.

But the president said in an interview that he was carving out an exception for “outliers like Iran and North Koreaâ€