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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 ...
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.
Miss Diana Marburg, also known as "The Oracle of Maddox Street", is a palmist and female occult detective created by the writers L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace.The character is unusual for Meade, insofar that there is a supernatural element involved in her detective skills, though elements of this are taken from the authors' character John Bell in The Master of Mysteries.
"The Dead Hand" April 30, 1946 September 16, 1946 Robert Newman A concert pianist loses his left hand in an accident. He meets a pickpocket with very nimble hands and once the pickpocket is dead, he won't need them anymore. 2 "The Man Who Was Death" April 30, 1946 September 23, 1946 Robert Newman
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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).
Dead Hand was a Soviet weapons-control system during the Cold War. Dead Hand or Dead hand may also refer to: The Dead Hand, 2009 book by David E. Hoffman; Dead Hand, or Mortmain, the perpetual, inalienable ownership of real estate; The "Dead Hand" series, books by Upton Sinclair starting with The Profits of Religion