Is seems to be atomic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa691278%28VS.71%29.aspx
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-335.pdf
Partition I, Section 12.6.6 of the CLI spec states: "A conforming CLI shall guarantee that read and write access to properly aligned memory locations no larger than the native word size is atomic when all the write accesses to a location are the same size."