The nonce attribute is helpful in increasing the coverage of a pages Content Security Policy by allowing some script tags to be evaluated inline without enabling 'unsafe-inline' over the entire page. Right now I believe the only way to create a script tag to with the nonce attribute is to use dangerouslySetInnerHTML on a parent element.
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2014/10/04/csp-for-the-web-we-have/