Tocsin

A tocsin is an alarm signal, given with a church bell. Usually this signal is given to tell people to assemble to face an imminent danger or threat.

Tocsin can also be,

Cold War

• TOCSIN, the codeword for any reading on the Bomb Power Indicator after a nuclear strike on the United Kingdom during the Cold War
• Tocsin Bang, the codeword for any reading on the AWDREY instrument after a nuclear bomb 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 group of university students (at Harvard) against nuclear weapons, led by Todd Gitlin

Place

• Tocsin, Indiana, a small town in Indiana in the United States

Music

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

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

• "The Tocsin", a poem by John Pierpont