We determine all nonquadratic imaginary cyclic number fields K of 2-power degrees with ideal class groups of exponents < 2, i.e., with ideal class groups such that the square of each ideal class is the principal class, i.e., such that the ideal class groups are isomorphic to some (Z/2Z)m , m > 0. There are 38 such number fields: 33 of them are quartic ones (see Theorem 13), 4 of them are octic ones (see Theorem 12), and 1 of them has degree 16 (see Theorem 11).