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 Bomb Power Indicator known by the acronym BPI was a detection instrument, located at the twenty five British Royal Observer Corps controls and nearly 1,500 ROC underground monitoring posts, across the United Kingdom, during the Cold War that woul ...

after a nuclear strike on the United Kingdom during the Cold War *

Tocsin Bang Atomic Weapons Detection Recognition and Estimation of Yield known by the acronym AWDREY was a desk-mounted automatic detection instrument, located at 12 of the 25 Royal Observer Corps (ROC) controls, across the United Kingdom, during the Cold Wa ...

, 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 Todd Alan Gitlin (January 6, 1943 – February 5, 2022) was an American sociologist, political activist and writer, novelist, and cultural commentator. He wrote about the mass media, politics, intellectual life and the arts, for both popular an ...

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 The California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) is a freely-available, archive of digitized California newspapers; it is accessible through the project's website. The collection contains over six million pages from over forty-two million arti ...

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Marin County Tocsin Marin (French) or Marín (Spanish "sailor") may refer to: People * Marin (name), including a list of persons with the given name or surname * MaRin, in-game name of professional South Korean ''League of Legends'' player Jang Gyeong-hwan (born 19 ...

'', a newspaper from Marin County, California; see

*''Tehama Tocsin'', an early name of the ''

Chico Enterprise-Record The ''Chico Enterprise-Record'' is the daily newspaper of Chico, California. Also known as the E-R, the newspaper was first published in Bidwell Bar, California as the Butte Record in 1853 and is now part of the MediaNews Group corporation, who t ...

'' newspaper in Tehama, California *''

Tocsin News ''The Enterprise-Tocsin'' is a newspaper in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The newspaper offices are in Indianola Indianola may refer to: Places in the United States * Indianola, California (disambiguation) ** Indianola (Eureka), California * Indi ...

'', or ''The Enterprise-Tocsin'', a newspaper in Mississippi *'' The Tocsin of Liberty'', an anti-slavery newspaper from the US Liberty Party; see

Alexander Wilkie Alexander Wilkie CH (30 September 1850 – 2 September 1928) was a Labour Party politician in Scotland, best known for his service as a Member of Parliament for Dundee. Along with the Dundonian George Nicoll Barnes, Wilkie was one of the fi ...

Other

Tocsin, Indiana Tocsin is an unincorporated community in Lancaster Township, Wells County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is on the border with Jefferson Township. History Tocsin was plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, ...

, a small town in the United States *"The Tocsin", a poem by

John Pierpont John Pierpont (April 6, 1785 – August 27, 1866) was an American poet, who was also successively a teacher, lawyer, merchant, and Unitarian minister. His poem ''The Airs of Palestine'' made him one of the best-known poets in the U.S. in his day. ...

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