Dead Hand (disambiguation)

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

Dead Hand or Dead hand may also refer to:

• The Dead Hand, 2009 book by David E. Hoffman
• 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), 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