diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -109,12 +109,11 @@ repository to be in the current directory.
   * You'll only need to do this once, but leave it running!
   * When you're done with it, bring it down with 
     [./attackathon/scripts/stop_warnet.sh](./scripts/stop_warnet.sh)
-* Start network: [./attackathon/scripts/start_network.sh](/.scripts/start_network.sh)
+* Start network: [./attackathon/scripts/start_network.sh ln_10](/.scripts/start_network.sh)
   brings up your lightning network, opens channels, simulates 
   random payments in the network and mines blocks every 5 minutes.
-  `./attackathon/scripts/start_network.sh ln_10`
   * If you want to kill your test network and start fresh, you can 
-    re-run this script.
+    use [./attackathon/scripts/stop_network.sh ln_10](./scripts/stop_network.sh)
 * Start attacking pods: [./attackathon/scripts/start_attacker.sh](./scripts/start_attacker.sh)
   brings up the lightning nodes that you will use for your attack and 
   a bitcoin node that you can use to fund the nodes / mine blocks.
diff --git a/scripts/stop_network.sh b/scripts/stop_network.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..d547e0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/stop_network.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Check if the correct number of arguments are provided
+if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
+    echo "Usage: $0 <network_name>"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+network_name="$1"
+
+echo "Tearing down previous network"
+warcli network down