reporter: immediately after the shootdown, defense secretary lloyd austin tried to call his chinese counterpart to explain. i put in a request for a call, and they did not accept that request. reporter: speaking publicly for the first time about the chinese balloon, austin told cbs news biggest worry was it would spy on u.s. nuclear forces located at bases across the country. all of our strategic assets, we made sure were buttoned down and movement was limited, so that we didn t expose any capability unnecessarily. reporter: by strategic assets, you mean the nuclear force. mm-hmm. reporter: it was out of a fleet of spy balloons based on the island of hainan, which had been over the u.s. since at least 2019, when one circumnavigated the globe. there were three incidents a couple years ago, balloons over flu parts of the u.s. reporter: which parts? parts of texas and florida that the balloon flew over.
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