Tocsin
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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
Newspapers
- The Tocsin, an early Australian socialist newspaper
- Tocsin (newspaper), 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 US Liberty Party.
Other
- Tocsin, Indiana, a small town in the United States
- "The Tocsin", a poem by John Pierpont
See also
- All pages with titles containing Tocsin
Topics referred to by the same term
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