Dead Hand

Dead hand can refer to:

  • Dead Hand (nuclear war), a nuclear deterrent in 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 which literally means "dead hand"

Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or hand:

    “To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.”
    —Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)

    “His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes—
    Cats—I believe he did but feign to hate.
    My hand will miss the insinuated nose,
    Mine eyes the tail that wagg’d contempt at Fate.”
    —Sir William Watson (1858–1935)