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Seems unlikely that a single Genie could not destroy a mass formation of Soviet bombers because there is no reason to fly bombers in mass formation in the post WWII nuclear era. You only fly bombers in a mass formation when you need to lay down a mass pattern of conventional HE bombs. In a nuclear attack bombers would probably attack dispersed targets singly. It's a big sky, so the Genie relied on a large blast radius to increase its probability of killing its target by merely getting close to a hit, but it could not be expected to clear the sky of multiple bombers with each shot unless the Soviets were dumb enough to bunch them all together.
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Absolutely. If the crew of the slow Enola Gay was able to avoid the effects of the bomb it dropped then a high performance fighter could certainly avoid such effects as well.
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