News Analysis
For eight long days, a Chinese spy balloon bobbed along in the skies above the United States and Canada.
First, it appeared to be heading north off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, then east toward British Columbia, before suddenly diverting again south and east in a course that would bring it over some of the most critical U.S. military facilities.
The Biden administration has thus far declined to specify which sites the Chinese balloon surveilled, but the dirigible visibly traveled near at least three military bases responsible for overseeing America’s nuclear arsenal.
In Montana, the spy balloon lingered over Malmstrom Air Force Base, the site of 150 silos that house many of the nation’s nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles….