Usually means: Automated nuclear control retaliation system.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead hand: Merriam-Webster
  2. dead hand: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dead hand: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dead hand: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dead hand: Vocabulary.com
  6. dead hand: Wordnik
  7. dead hand: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. dead hand: Dictionary.com
  9. Dead Hand (The Americans), Dead Hand (disambiguation), Dead Hand (nuclear war), Dead Hand, Dead hand, The Dead Hand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. dead hand: Rhymezone
  11. Dead Hand: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. dead hand: FreeDictionary.org
  13. dead hand: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. dead hand: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. Dead Hand: Wiktionary

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  1. dead hand: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

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  1. dead hand: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dead hand: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)

(Note: See dead_hands as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dead Hand)

noun:  A residual undesirable influence from the past.
noun:  (card games) A hand that is dealt but not used during a card game.
noun:  A system capable of closing a strategic nuclear strike control loop in the absence of normal command and control channels, analogous in concept to a deadman switch, in anticipation of a decapitation strike. Implemented by the Soviet Union and by the Russian Federation as the successor state thereof.

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