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 utmost familiarity with dead streams, or with the ocean, would not prepare a man for this peculiar navigation; and the most skillful boatman anywhere else would here be obliged to take out his boat and carry round a hundred times, still with great risk, as well as delay, where the practiced batteau-man poles up with comparative ease and safety.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work—it is an indication on Nature’s part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)