Antarctica is surrounded by a very cold and turbulent ocean, whose massive thermal capacity (compared to land) drastically reduces warming, compared to what we see in our hemisphere.
This would be born of a mistaken impression that the crisis in Moscow had passed and with it the threat of renewed Cold War and the prospect of having to cancel massive defense budget cuts now underway.
The Israel Test describes in riveting detail both the massive contributions of mainly Diaspora Jews to the US victories in World War II and the Cold War and to the scientific revolutions of the 20th century that set the foundations for the computer age, and the massive contributions of Israeli Jews to the digital revolution that defines and shapes our economic realities today.
Fidel Castro has recently decided to exploit the high value which Russia places on maintaining this massive GRU facility on his island -- one of the few leverage points he still has over his post-Cold War benefactors in the Kremlin.