SASLess you are quite right but don't overlook one crucial thing that a strategic bomber needed in the Cold War; accurate mapping. Accurate mapping tended to be produced for areas where accurate mapping was needed, like down town Moscow.
I don't know the available detail at the time but would be surprised if it fell well short of European standards. In the 70s, which is what we are talking about mapping-wize, the map accuracy was often less than 400 yards.
Conducting a radar attack on a no-show target depends on the accurate measurement of distance from an offset aiming point. The purpose of stick-bombing is to reduce the effect of one element of map and system induced errors; it worked.
Had we used a B52 we would have decimated the population and maybe killed a number of civilians too.