Filters. (uncountable) The political philosophy associated with former US president George W. Bush or his father, former US president George H. W. Bush.

Nearly a decade after George W. Bush said “misunderestimated” in a speech, Philip Hensher called the term one of his “most memorable additions to the language, and an incidentally expressive one: it may be that we rather needed a word for ‘to underestimate by mistake’.”

In Don Delillo’s 1997 novel Underworld, Marvin mentions nuclear weapons and it is said “He pronounced it nucular”. Bush, says “nucular”, only for the exasperated Chief of CONTROL to loudly correct him.

Nellie Connally, the First Lady of Texas, turned to Kennedy, who was sitting behind her, and commented, “Mr. President, you can’t say Dallas doesn’t love you”. Kennedy’s reply – “No, you certainly can’t” – were his last words.

On January 17, 1961, in this farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the establishment of a “military-industrial complex.”

The military–industrial complex (MIC) describes the relationship between a nation’s military and the defense industry that supplies it, seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy.

The industrial complex is a socioeconomic concept wherein businesses become entwined in social or political systems or institutions, creating or bolstering a profit economy from these systems. The industrial complex may profit financially from maintaining socially detrimental or inefficient systems.

The nuclear arms race was an arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War.

Arms-race sentence example

1. It will serve to hold back the nuclear arms race in South Asia.
2. The aim was to cause a massively expensive arms race which would virtually bankrupt the USSR.
3. During the FC, a special session was devoted to ‘ prevention of an arms race in outer space ‘ on Tuesday October 19.