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'''Dead hand''' can refer to:
'''[[Dead Hand]]''' was a Soviet weapons-control system during the Cold War.


'''Dead Hand''' or '''Dead hand''' may also refer to:
*[[Dead Hand (nuclear war)]], a Soviet weapons-control system used as a deterrent during the Cold War
*''[[The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy]]''
*Dead Hand, a sub-boss in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]''.
*''The Dead Hand'', original title of one of the short stories comprising the original [[Foundation Trilogy]]
*[[Dead man's hand]] poker hand allegedly held by [[Wild Bill Hickok]] at the time of his murder.
*[[Mortmain]], a legal term, literally 'Dead Hand' in [[French language|French]]
*"Dead hand", a legal term referring to control of an estate by a decedent; see [[future interest]]


* ''[[The Dead Hand]]'', 2009 book by David E. Hoffman
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* Dead Hand, or [[Mortmain]], the perpetual, inalienable ownership of real estate
* The "Dead Hand" series, books by Upton Sinclair starting with ''[[The Profits of Religion]]''
* "Dead Hand", later retitled "The General", a 1945 novella by Isaac Asimov later collected in ''[[Foundation and Empire]]'' (1952)
* [[Dead Hand (The Americans)|"Dead Hand" (''The Americans'')]], a 2018 episode of the TV series ''The Americans''
* [[Dead hand (cards)]], a hand that is dealt but not used during a card game
* So-called "[[Dead hand control]]," also known as the [[rule against perpetuities]], in [[common law]] [[property law]]

==See also==
*[[Dead man's hand (disambiguation)]]

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Latest revision as of 18:06, 27 March 2024

Dead Hand was a Soviet weapons-control system during the Cold War.

Dead Hand or Dead hand may also refer to:

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