Tocsin (disambiguation)

Tocsin (disambiguation)

A tocsin is a form of alarm.

The term may also refer to:

*"Tocsin" (album), the second album of 1980s goth rock band Xmal Deutschland
*"Tocsin", the title of the final movement of Symphony No. 11 (Shostakovich)
*Tocsin, Indiana, a small town in the United States
*"Tocsin", the title of a radical newspaper published in Australia around the turn of the nineteenth century, with a masthead designed by Norman Lindsay. It was anti-Australian Federation
*"Tocsin, the code name for the nuclear attack simulation performed by the government of Canada on Nov. 13, 1961 [http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-274-1466/conflict_war/cold_war/clip8]
*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

Distinguish from

*Toxin


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