It is all relative, di the nuke kill fifty percent or did the EMP blast do its job?
GAME says this and that happened and so many left this mortal coil and this is what you have left to work with.
I can dispute the numbers, make that, we can dispute the numbers and the hows and whys that might happen if the events were to happen as described but your point is well taken, tactical nuke use would create a hell of a lot of problems over territory that is in dispute, strategic use while devastating would not leave the same ground effects.
Which is worse and how do we determine which is which?
Let us debate that some more