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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

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