But as one study concluded just as the Cold War was ending, agreements to control weapons so they are not used—as distinct from eliminating them entirely—“may, in the end, be better, if only because its prospects for success are greater.”18 It’s perhaps this concept, as much as anything else, that has animated the efforts of international legal experts to define international norms that limit the way cyberweapons can be used.19 Another repeated lesson from the history of arms control is also applicable: Governments will sometimes seek to evade international agreements if they can, so there
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