Dead man's hand in popular culture known as the Dead Man's Hand and use the eponymous cards as their insignia. In , just before Vagabond dies on an infiltration mission, he loses a critical hand of poker with a full house of aces and eights against Maniac's four queens. In the 90th Case of the Facebook game, "Criminal Case", the player finds a set of poker cards with 2 black aces and eights, which allows the player to incriminate the killer as someone who plays poker. In the crew Stacked Deck's insignia includes the ace of Spades and an unknown black 8, two of the five
Dead Hand Building (TsNIIMash) in 1976–92, confirmed in 1993 that the Soviets had designed the automatic launch system with seismic, light and radiation sensors, but said that the design had been ultimately rejected by Marshal Sergey Akhromeyev on advice of Korobushin and never materialized. Accounts differ as to the degree of automation of Dead Hand. In a 1993 issue of "The New York Times": The communication missile would work similarly to the US Emergency Rocket Communications System (ERCS). However, more recent sources indicate the system was semi-automatic. In a 2007 article, Ron Rosenbaum quotes Blair as saying that Dead Hand is "designed