Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu has visited the Arctic island notorious for nuclear testing amid fears the Kremlin is set to defy the West by resuming military atomic tests.Shoigu's trip to Novaya Zemlya, a remote Arctic archipelago, comes amid huge war games by Vladimir 's Northern Fleet involving 20 naval ships and more than 8,000 troops.It's the first time the defence minister has visited since Putin ordered that Russia is ready 'if necessary' to conduct new nuclear tests for the first time since 1990 in the Soviet era.
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