"Dead Hand" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2009 September 21, Nicholas Thompson, “Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine”, in Wired, →ISSN:",
          "text": "The system may no longer be a central element of Russian strategy—US-based Russian arms expert Pavel Podvig calls it now \"just another cog in the machine\"—but Dead Hand is still armed.",
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        "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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