Tocsin

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 and by 1963 also against the Vietnam War, led by Todd Gitlin

Music

• Tocsin (album), a 1984 album by gothic rock band Xmal Deutschland
• Tocsin, 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

Newspapers

• The Tocsin, an early Australian socialist newspaper
• Tocsin, a newspaper from Red Bluff, California; see California Digital Newspaper Collection
• Marin County Tocsin, a newspaper from Marin County, California; see California Digital Newspaper Collection
• Tehama Tocsin, an early name of the Chico Enterprise-Record newspaper in Tehama, California
• Tocsin News, or The Enterprise-Tocsin, a newspaper in Mississippi
• The Tocsin of Liberty, an anti-slavery newspaper from the Liberty Party (United States, 1840)

Other

• Tocsin, Indiana, a small town in the United States
• "The Tocsin", a poem by John Pierpont

See also