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:
“I’m beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of death among Americans. What you don’t know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright’s character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“The child hand raised to reach the holding hand. Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)