Devastating photos capture the aftermath of war

LONDON --From the jungles of Vietnam to the mountains of Afghanistan, for decades photographers have captured both conflict itself -- and what remains in the aftermath of battle.

In Conflict, Time, Photography, which has just opened at the Tate Modern in London, a new exhibition looks at the aftermath: from the seconds after a bomb is detonated to the scene of a battle many years later.

The exhibition coincides with the centenary of the beginning of World War I.

Here are 12 photographs from the exhibit:

1. Shomei Tomatsu (1963)

Steel Helmet with Skull Bone Fused by Atomic Bomb, Nagasaki

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2. Simon Norfolk (2003)

Bullet-scarred apartment building and shops in the Karte Char district of Kabul.

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3. Luc Delahaye (2001)

US Bombing on Taliban Positions

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4. Jo Ractliffe (2009)

As Terras do fim do Mundo

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5. Chloe Dewe Mathews (2013)

Vebranden-Molen, West-Vlaanderen

Locations where British, French and Belgian soldiers were executed for cowardice and desertion on the Western Front

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6. Don McCullin (1968)

Shell Shocked US Marine, Vietnam, Hue

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7. Jerzy Lewczyński (1960)

Wolf's Lair / Adolf Hitler's War Headquarters

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8. Pierre Anthony-Thouret (1927 )

Plate XXXVIII, Reims after the War

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9. Toshio Fukada (1945)

The Mushroom Cloud

(Taken less than 20 minutes after the explosion)

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10. An-My Lê (1994-98)

Untitled, Hanoi

From the series Untitled, Vietnam

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11. Kikuji Kawada (1965)

The Japanese National Flag, from The Map, Tokyo

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12. Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (2012)

Kurchatov - Architecture of a Nucleur Test Site, Kazakhstan

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All images courtesy of the Tate Modern's Conflict, Time, Photography exhibit, which runs until March 15, 2015.