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The end of the 20th century was inescapably marked by the new “instruments of death,” child soldiers used by adults in their wars. Based on interviews with a number of former child soldiers in Lebanon, the author analyzes the implicit horror of their acts of terror, which affects them intimately and leads to a dehumanizing, forbidden jouissance that the majority of them experienced. Through the story of one of these former child soldiers, the author also investigates the filiation of this terror, passed on “from father to son,” which permanently brands the acts of the latter. By their compulsive repetition, they bring back the terror of the father which could not be symbolized and has thus remained “foreclosed” from the child’s psyche.