“The Obama administration will release a new national nuclear-weapons strategy Tuesday that makes only modest changes to U.S. nuclear forces, leaving intact the longstanding U.S. threat to use nuclear weapons first, even against non-nuclear nations. But the new policy will narrow potential U.S. nuclear targets, and for the first time makes explicit the goal of making deterrence of a nuclear strike the ‘sole objective’ of U.S. nuclear weapons, a senior Obama administration official said Monday.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304620304575166263632513790.html
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