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:
“With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“My most desire my hand may reach,
My will is alway at my hand;
Me need not long for to beseech
Her that hath power me to command.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)