Which action best illustrates the cold war policy of containment? 1)participating in the nuremberg trials 2) creating of nato 3) encouraging scientific cooperation between the allies 4) recognizing the state of israel in 1948

It would be "(2) creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)" that best illustrates the Cold War policy of containment, since this organization represented a western "block" of countries that was meant to act as a counterbalance to the eastern "block" of communist countries.