Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said that a Chinese spy balloon that traveled over the United States went past a B-2 stealth bomber base but claimed the Department of Defense took steps to protect its assets from Chinese surveillance.
“All of our strategic assets—we were, made sure that we were buttoned down and movement was limited and communications were limited so that we didn’t expose any capability unnecessarily,” Austin told CBS News on Wednesday evening in his first interview since the balloon was shot down over the Atlantic Ocean last Saturday.
When pressed further, Austin confirmed that those assets were U.S. nuclear weapons systems….