Look up dead hand  or Dead Hand in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

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

See also

• Dead man's hand (disambiguation)
• Mortmain, which literally means dead hand in Latin.

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Dead Hand.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.