Which of the following statements about los alamos was not true? a. los alamos was an intellectual boomtown. b. los alamos was known only as a post office box. c. los alamos had been a school in prior decades. d. los alamos was an easy trip from albuquerque.

Los Alamos was known only as a post office box, had been a school in prior decades and it was an easy trip from Albuquerque, so the correct answer is letter "a", since it has never been an intellectual boomtown.

As a matter of fact, when the Department of War began looking for a remote location for the Manhattan Project, in 1942, during World War II, the school was closed and they started doing research about explosives and bombs, yet all information about the town was highly classified until the bombing of Hiroshima.

d.summerains, the last one

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.