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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy is a 2009 book written by David E. Hoffman, a Washington Post contributing editor. It was the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction .
Dead Hand, also known as Perimeter (Russian: Система «Периметр», romanized: Sistema "Perimetr", lit. '"Perimeter" System', with the GRAU Index 15E601, Cyrillic: 15Э601), [1] is a Cold War–era automatic or semi-automatic nuclear weapons control system (similar in concept to the American AN/DRC-8 Emergency Rocket Communications System) that was constructed by the Soviet Union ...
This came to be known as the "dead hand" (French: mortmain) – either the Church (a non-living corporation) represented this dead hand, or the hand was that of the dead donor, who in effect still controlled the land by his original gift of it. Thus did the actions of men who had died generations before continue to control their former lands.
The book is the first of the "Dead Hand" series: six books Sinclair wrote on American institutions. The series also includes The Brass Check (journalism), The Goose-step (higher education), The Goslings (elementary and high school education), Mammonart (art) and Money Writes!
The Dead Hand. (This story was believed to have been written in 1912 and later expanded to novel length as The Shadow of the Wolf ; the short story was also published in Detection by Gaslight, 14 Victorian detective stories , an anthology by Douglas G. Greene (Dover. 1997).
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Bel Riose is a fictional character in the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov.In the 1945 novella "Dead Hand", he is the last great general of the declining Galactic Empire.He targets the Foundation both as a perceived threat to the Empire and to further his own ambitions, but is outmaneuvered by its agents.
The Shadow of the Dead Hand (1926) The King Diamond (1927) The Grey Woman; or, Sinister House (1928) A Broken Memory (1929) The Phantom Car (1929) A Clue in Wax (1930) Found Dead (1930) On the Night Express (1930) Queen of Hearts c. (1930) The Man Who Knew (1932) Secret of the River (1934) The Blue Daffodil (1934) New Century Calendar Clue (1948)