Dead Hand (disambiguation)

Dead Hand is a Cold War-era Soviet/Russian weapons control system.

Dead hand may also refer to:

• The Dead Hand, a 2009 non-fiction book by David E. Hoffman
• Dead hand, or mortmain, the perpetual, inalienable ownership of real estate
• Dead Hand, a book series by Upton Sinclair, starting with The Profits of Religion
• "Dead Hand", a 1945 novella by Isaac Asimov, later renamed "The General" as part of Foundation and Empire (1952)
• "Dead Hand" (The Americans), a 2018 TV episode
• Dead hand (cards), a hand that is dealt but not used during a card game

• Dead hand control, also known as the rule against perpetuities, in common law property law
• Dead man's hand (disambiguation)