A Tocsin is an alarm or other signal sounded by a bell or bells. It may refer to:

Cold War

  • TOCSIN, the codeword attached by the Royal Observer Corps to any reading on the Bomb Power Indicator after a nuclear strike on the United Kingdom during the Cold War
  • Tocsin Bang, the codeword attached by the Royal Observer Corps to any reading on the AWDREY instrument after a nuclear strike on the United Kingdom during the Cold War
  • Exercise Tocsin, a name for the nuclear attack simulation performed by the Government of Canada
  • TOCSIN, a Harvard undergraduate group against nuclear weapons, led by Todd Gitlin

Music

  • Tocsin (album), a 1984 album by goth rock band Xmal Deutschland
  • Tocsin (Year of No Light album), a 2013 album by French shoegaze band Year of No Light
  • the fourth and final movement of the Symphony No. 11 (1957) by Dmitri Shostakovich

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See also

  • All pages with titles containing Tocsin
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