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:

    “The worst of crimes. All the other crimes are virtues beside it: all the other dishonors are chivalry itself by comparison. Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 5:15.

    See Exodus 22:8 for a different version of this fourth commandment.