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, also known by the acronym BPI, was an instrument built to detect nuclear explosions and measure the peak overpressure of their blast waves. It was used at the twenty five British Royal Observer Corps (ROC) controls and near ...

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 13 of the 25 Royal Observer Corps (ROC) controls, across the United Kingdom, during the Cold War ...

, 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 Exercise Tocsin was an emergency preparedness drill held by the Government of Canada on November 13, 1961, that simulated a nuclear attack by the USSR on Canada. Every law enforcement agency, provincial, and municipal government took part in the exe ...

, 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 Year of No Light is a French post-metal band formed in Bordeaux in 2001. On their 2006 debut album ''Nord'', the band combined a dark and aggressive sludge metal sound with psychedelic atmospheres inspired by post-rock and shoegazing. In 2008, t ...

*the fourth and final movement of the Symphony No. 11 (1957) by Dmitri Shostakovich

Newspapers

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The Tocsin ''The Tocsin'' (often referred to only as ''Tocsin'') was an Australian socialist newspaper, published from 1897 to 1906. It was co-founded by several prominent political figures, including Edward Findley, John Percy Jones and Bernard O'Dowd. ...

'', 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 or Marín (Italian "sailor") may refer to: People * Marin (name), including a list of persons with the given name or Italian 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 ...

'' 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, Mississippi, Indianola. The newspaper is distributed in Sunflower County, Mississippi, Sunflower County and sections of northern H ...

'', 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 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 da ...

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