In view of the foreseeable demographic risks from pension entitlements, a time bomb may now have been set ticking.

The Greek Time Bomb

The Liquidity Time Bomb

The Snowden Time Bomb

The root cause of all these developments is Europe s population shrinkage. The demographic time bomb that economic analysts have been discussing for a decade or more is now exploding.

Defusing the Syrian Time Bomb

It s Time to Ban the Bomb

It is time to give up the fantasy of an Islamic Bomb, and it is past the time to rein in Pakistan's rogue bomb makers.

The Taliban must not be allowed to bomb Afghanistan back in time.

The concept of demographic threat (or demographic bomb) is a term used in political conversation to refer to population increases from within a minority ethnic group in a given country that are perceived as threatening to alter the ethnic identity of that country.

And this is very important. At the same time if you peel away the demographic dividend in India, there are actually two demographic curves.

Life events are relegated to mere triggers of an underlying biological time bomb.

The growing NCD and CVD burden is a time bomb for world health.

At some point, the ticking time bomb will explode, and the growth rate will crash.

LONDON Some fine ideas are rather like a beautiful object with a time bomb inside.

The consumable pusher makes the bomb more a uranium fission bomb than a hydrogen fusion bomb.

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rightly defined the upcoming referendum as a ticking time bomb.

Perhaps a time bomb has been planted under the thrones of Arab potentates kings, emirs and presidents.

And so, barring a miracle, the time bomb within post war Europe s beautiful ideal is about to explode.

Though this was the first time the Soviets had been officially given information about the atomic bomb, Stalin was already aware of the bomb project, having learned about it (through espionage) long before Truman did.

At the same time, Japan s demographic trends will boost demand for fiscal expenditure, as pension and health care costs rise.

Neither would it have stopped the global saving glut from turning into a ticking time bomb for the world economy.

The Vanishing Bomb

For the US, North Korea illustrates how a poor but ambitious country developed the bomb by gaming talks and gaining time.

The Real Demographic Challenge

JH What's your demographic?

Japan s Secret Demographic Weapon

Stopping a Dirty Bomb

The Government Debt Bomb

Gaza Google bomb says

Are you the BOMB?

The second transition is demographic.

The demographic image of Greece

Reducing demographic pressure on forests.

Relearning to Love the Bomb

A Bomb in Every Reactor

Owning Up to Israel s Bomb

When they bomb a place, they wait for us to get there, and they bomb again, he says.

With Eastern Europe under Red Army occupation, Stalin was also biding his time, as his own atomic bomb project was steadily and secretly progressing.

Iran, after all, is not building an Islamic bomb. It is building an Iranian bomb, or, worse yet, a Shia bomb that Arab leaders must be more resolute in trying to stop.

The radioactive material would not be useful for a fission bomb, but could be used in a dirty bomb.

Japan also faces serious demographic challenges.

Geographical, demographic, social and economic information

Some demographic indicators of Vanuatu, 1999

National demographic and health survey, 2001.