In the Societé de Witte in the Dutch Capital, Ivo Daalder of Brookings and Riecke debated US, French and British plans for their nuclear arsenals. Riecke gave attention to the most recent cuts in the French nuclear force, announced by President Sarkozy about a week earlier. While London and Paris still rely on nucklear arms as instrument against possible new threats, Berlin is trying to devalue this kind of weapon for security. Directly after the debate, the Dutch foreign minister Maxim Verhagen gave a lecture on the security risks in a gloablized world.