• n  a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully
  containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975
• n  (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor
• n  the act of containing; keeping something from spreading
  the containment of the AIDS epidemic
  the containment of the rebellion

News & Articles

• More Containment At Royal Gorge, Big Meadows Fire Grows
  Fire crews have 65 percent containment on the Royal Gorge Fire and the Big Meadows Fire in Rocky Mountain National Park has grown to nearly 500 acres.
  June 16, 2013 - CBS Denver
• UPDATES: Crews gain 65 percent containment on Black Forest fire
  LIVE UPDATES: SUNDAY Noon. Containment in the Black Forest fire increased to 65 percent and no more land or structures were lost overnight, officials said at a press conference said. - IDs of the two people who died in the fire were not released, although El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said officials hope to have identities in the next 24 hours. Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette
  June 16, 2013 - Colorado Springs Gazette
• ROYAL GORGE FIRE: Containment up to 65 percent, talk of bridge and park future begins
  11:27 p.m. UPDATE: Containment of the Royal Gorge fire has increased to 65 percent, "There are still some pockets of unburned fuel well within the fire perimeter; however they pose no threat to the containment lines," the Rocky Mountain Incident Management Team B reported. "On Saturday, firefighters will continue to strengthen lines on the SW portion of the fire and conduct mop-up operations on ...
  June 15, 2013 - Colorado Springs Gazette

Quotes

• Tony Hayward in CBS News
  We have a further containment system to implement in the course of the coming week, which will be in place by next weekend,said BP CEO Tony Hayward.
• David Vitter in The Associated Press
  Today we learned that the containment system was damaged and had to be removed, leaving the well totally uncapped and gushing oil into the Gulf once again,said Republican Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana. "This is obviously a very...
• Barack Obama in BusinessWeek
  We also know that there's already a lot of oil that's been released, and that there's going to be more oil released no matter how successful this containment effort is,he added.