The Hanford Engineer Works was a nuclear production complex in Benton County, Washington, established by the US government in 1943 during World War II. It was part of the Manhattan Project and contained B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor. Plutonium made there was used in the Trinity test in July 1945 and in the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki in August 1945. The site was chosen far from dense populations on the Columbia River, and the government acquired land for it under its war powers, relocating some 1,500 residents. Construction began in March 1943 and employed nearly 45,000 workers at its peak. Three reactors, B, D and F, each ran at 250 megawatts. B Reactor went critical in September 1944 and produced its first plutonium in November. The plant kept producing plutonium for weapons until 1971.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.