Just on the energy involved I would go for the hurricain. We have nothing today that can produce the amounts of energy gererated by a hurricain or typhoon. If you took all the energy stored in one very small hurricain or even just a tropical storm and released it like you do with a nuclear device well..........at the very least it would make one hell of a mess.
On the question on which is more destructive to the planet the I would say a nuclear bomb. After all a hurricain is only mother natures air conditioning system.
Of course if you want to put man against Mother Nature try this one from tex avary. Man picks up a stone and throwes it at Mother Nature. Mother Nature picks up a stone and flattens man with a small iron ore meteorite moving at about 30 miles a second.
It should also be remebered that we have been studying hurricains only on a very short time scale. I seem to remember reading a scare theory somewhere that as the globe heats up then we can expect to see hurricains and typhoons of higher intensity more frequently. So going by that theory we an't seen nothing yet.
Guess I am going to herd goats in the montains while sitting on a life jacket